Inhabitants of the Guantanamera community La Ranchería repair road with their own efforts.

In the face of the deterioration of the main street and the complete disregard of the Cuban regime, the residents of the La Ranchería community in the La Caridad de los Indios Popular Council, in the Manuel Tames municipality of Guantanamo, decided to take the initiative and repair the road on their own.

With their resources and efforts, the residents of the last indigenous stronghold of the island are improving a road that is no longer maintained by the road workers due to salary issues, and the rains have rendered it impassable even for tractors, according to the local weekly Venceremos.

The outlet reports that a report from the Acontecer program of the CMKS station recounts an interview with citizen Vladimir Ramírez Ramírez, stating that for more than 25 years the road has not been repaired in the nearly 30 kilometers between the town of Manuel Tames and the neighborhood of Pinar de Ceiba, where mountain transport used to reach.

Ramírez assured that the situation is so complex for the indigenous enclave that the arrival of basic basket supplies to the store and the transport of agricultural goods is difficult.

Venceremos indicated that La Ranchería, in the intricate mountains, is a community of just 11 small houses built in place of the thatched roofs and around twenty people who are descendants of the Taínos, who managed to survive the barbarity of the conqueror after retreating to inaccessible places of the Sagua-Nipe-Baracoa mountain range, and today they maintain their ethnic composition and cultural heritage.

In July 2023, the Cuban government acknowledged that 75 percent of the country's roads and circulation routes are in a technical condition ranging from fair to poor.

Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, head of Transport, presented the data before the Commission for the Attention of Services of the Cuban Parliament and reported that the pace of deterioration has not been contained, increasing every year, Cubadebate informed.

In April, the poor condition of one of the bridges connecting Moa in Holguín with Baracoa in Guantánamo was reported through social media.

A video published in the Facebook group "ACCIDENTES BUSES & CAMIONES por más experiencia y menos víctimas!" highlights the dangers faced by people traveling on that road, which is full of potholes that jeopardize their physical safety and that of their vehicles.