There are corners of Cuba that neighbors can hardly remember the last time the garbage was collected, a problem that the comedian Jardiel referred to in his latest social media live stream.
"Measuring the age of these landfills must be something like how it's done with sequoias, where the trunk is cut and the rings are visible, and you know their age. Or like mountains, by tectonic plates. What lies beneath these landfills are cities, they are relics. Imagine finding a pyramid of Egypt beneath a landfill!" Jardiel said, showing another immense landfill in the capital.
As an original chronicler of the destruction of Havana and the entire country, the humorist has a varied anthology of denunciatory videos, in which he criticizes the proliferation of trash heaps, the poor condition of the streets, the water leaks, and the ruins where Cubans live.
"We have not calculated well how to make money from this country, but if the global scrap dealers found out and knew about the scrap potential in Cuba, where everything is old, outdated, nothing is useful for anything, the sewers are an 80-year-old ball of iron, the houses are from the 30s, the sugar mills, the thermoelectrics, the almendrones… all of that is scrap," the comedian described in another previous live session.
In light of that situation, Jardiel proposed selling "all that" and starting from scratch. "Imagine, we would have nothing left, but well, we go back to the Indians, since we are more or less back there in 1492. Let Columbus come back, let him discover us again, and we will build this from scratch," he commented.
In mid-August, the comedian showcased the unhealthy conditions prevailing in the Marianao neighborhood of Havana. "New garbage dump mode," showing what he called a “garbage dump in the shape of an ‘L’,” because it spread down a street and turned the corner, forming a mountain of waste in the shape of this letter.
Jardiel doesn't let any current or socially relevant topic escape him, and with sharpness, he questions both the inconsistencies of the monetary system imposed by the regime and its impact on the pockets of ordinary citizens, as well as recreating, with a humor mixed with sadness, how Cuban children experience the Day of the Three Kings.
Between jokes, the former member of the comedic group Punto y Coma questions the state of abandonment and misery in which the city finds itself and lashes out at those responsible for that desolate situation.
Potholes in the streets, debris and garbage everywhere, uncovered drains… these have been the target of their biting videos, which provoke laughter but also lead to reflection on the harsh Cuban reality.
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