Young man from Santiago is buried in Havana due to lack of transportation.

A young man born in Santiago de Cuba who died in Havana was buried in the capital due to a lack of transportation to take him to his home province, where all his family is.

The deceased, named Humberto Barrera Pérez, was 31 years old and originally from the El Caney neighborhood, but was residing in Havana at the time of his death. He was found dead in a hallway, under circumstances that have not been clarified.

According to what independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada reported on Facebook, the causes of death are still under investigation.

"His body could not be transferred to his hometown where his family and loved ones reside," a relative of the young man confirmed to the reporter.

"It was necessary to bury him in Havana because there was no transportation to Santiago. Imagine, only his mother and a friend of ours who could go buried him," he specified.

Although the mother tried to arrange for her son's transfer to his homeland, the lack of transportation in the country gave her no choice but to bury him in the city of Havana.

In May, the families of two women from Santiago who died in Las Vegas denounced the inefficiency, corruption, and lack of empathy and ethics of the government, as the bodies arrived in Havana on a Saturday and by the following Tuesday had not been transferred to Santiago de Cuba for a final farewell.

"A service that is paid for from abroad in foreign currency was charged again in worthless national currency and they still haven't delivered my daughter to us," protested the mother of one of the young women.

"On top of that, to save fuel, they put the girls with one more corpse in each hearse..." he detailed.

The woman emphasized that the two girls had been deceased for more than two months and during that time they were well sheltered in the United States. Her concern grew as the conditions in Cuba are not the same; there are no air-conditioned hearses, the temperatures are extremely high, and there are constant blackouts.

There are countless hardships that Cubans face in burying their loved ones. Many even have to bear expenses and procedures that, in theory, are the responsibility of the State.

There are those who have suffered upon seeing how their family member begins to decompose in their home due to the lack of a coffin and transportation to transfer them to the funeral home.

Others have had to find transportation for the coffin, place the deceased in the casket, take it to the funeral home, and then buy cement to seal the vault and even close the grave in the cemetery.