Amid a growing hygiene crisis in the Cuban capital, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel launched a comprehensive offensive against the uncontrolled accumulation of garbage in Havana, a situation that affects all municipalities.
The state-run newspaper Granma reported that during his recent visit to the municipality of Diez de Octubre, one of the most affected, the Cuban leader announced a strategic plan in which "each ministry will sponsor a municipality," with the aim of stabilizing solid waste collection and improving hygiene conditions in the city.
According to Díaz-Canel, there are "advances" in Diez de Octubre, "which has become a model to follow within the cleaning campaign."
He clarified that with the coordination between the Agro-Food Department of the Central Committee of the Party and the ministries of Agriculture and Labor and Social Security, the municipality has managed to recover public spaces, improve garbage collection, and beautify the streets with painting and trimming work.
With the accumulation of more than 30,000 cubic meters of garbage daily in Havana, the situation has generated tensions throughout the city. The crisis is not limited to Havana; in cities like Santiago de Cuba, residents have set garbage dumpsters on fire in protest.
The regime has stated that it does not have enough resources to collect the garbage, and that every day the equivalent of three Olympic-sized swimming pools accumulates in Havana.
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