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A neighbor made an urgent appeal through the Facebook group SHEIN GUANTANAMO to report the uncontrolled accumulation of garbage in front of her home, on 1 Norte Street between Cuartel and San Gregorio, where an improvised dump has been growing for days without any action from the authorities.
The affected individual described an unbearable situation, with rodents and insects invading homes and a stench that prevents normal living.
"Help, I need assistance because the landfill located at 1 Norte between Cuartel and San Gregorio is growing larger every day since it hasn't been collected for days, and the rodents and insects are affecting the homes, as well as the foul smell it emanates," she wrote in her public complaint.
The neighbor pointed directly to the Government, the Communist Party, and the Communal Company of Guantánamo as responsible for finding a solution. She acknowledged the fuel shortage as the backdrop of the problem but insisted that there are ways to resolve it.
The garbage crisis in Guantánamo is not an isolated incident. The city is simultaneously facing power outages of up to 30 hours per day and cycles of up to 25 days without water supply, a culmination of failures that has led local authorities to resort to animal-drawn transportation to distribute water due to the paralysis of pumping equipment.
The problem extends throughout the island. In Havana, the waste crisis has already made it to the international press, with only 44 out of 106 garbage collection trucks operational in February of this year, while the capital generates between 24,000 and 30,000 cubic meters of solid waste per day.
In Matanzas, overflowing landfills and garbage burning have become the community's response to the inaction of the State.
The regime has responded with campaigns such as "Operation Cleanup" and "Cuba Recycles 2026," which have been characterized as cosmetic and insufficient by locals and analysts.
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