Great indignation was stirred among the residents of the Ramón Domínguez de la Peña community, known as the Macizo Cañero, in the Venezuela municipality, Ciego de Ávila, when the local authorities attempted to remove the turbine that pumps water from the area.
A video published this Tuesday on Facebook by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights shows residents protesting against the decision to remove the turbine that supplies the cistern on which the community depends.
"Everyone in the village is against taking the turbine, because it is us who are suffering," can be heard saying the person who recorded the video.
“How are they going to take the turbine?” questioned the man, incredulous at the possibility that the Cuban regime could worsen the water scarcity that the community suffers.
The author of the video also reported that the government planned to take the turbine to replace a broken one in a neighborhood of "bosses," as he stated in his recording.
The clip shows several people protesting against the regime's decision to remove the equipment without consulting the community, which once again demonstrates that the government rarely takes negotiated measures with those affected.
This is not the first time that the issue of access to drinking water has sparked protests in Cuba.
This past Tuesday, residents of San Miguel del Padrón, in Havana, desperate and outraged by the lack of water for more than two weeks, took to the streets to protest and blocked roads in their neighborhoods.
Images circulating on social media show dozens of residents from the neighborhoods La Rosita and Siboney, in the Havana municipality, who gathered in the streets early in the evening for spontaneous protests after being without basic services for more than 15 days.
In June, after more than two months without potable water, the residents of the Villaclare town of Ecoa 13, on the road to Camajuaní in Santa Clara, closed the avenue in protest of the authorities' negligence and demanded the restoration of the service.
The protesters confirmed that they have been without water for over two months, which is why they took to the streets to block traffic shouting "we want water."
The Cuban regime recently acknowledged that more than 600,000 Cubans currently have no access to drinking water supply services and justified the problem with the energy crisis affecting the country.
The president of the Water and Sanitation Business Group, José Antonio Hernández Álvarez, acknowledged that the water supply is in a critical situation in Cuba, but he assures that the main problem is the continuous blackouts that cause failures in the pumping system.
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