A mother from the Havana neighborhood of Lawton, Sady R. Companioni, reported this Friday that regime agents deliberately denied her access to water from a state truck positioned at the corner of her block, while a police officer threatened to detain her if she attempted to photograph what was happening.
Companioni posted her complaint on Facebook hours after returning from the hospital with her daughter, who was diagnosed with dengue. According to her account, the water truck was located in front of her house, and all the neighbors in the surrounding blocks were called to collect water —and they did— but she was expressly excluded.
A woman who identified herself as a delegate and a police officer coordinated the exclusion. The police warned her: "Everyone is going to be thrown out except her, because I feel like it, and we’ll see if it isn’t that way."
When Companioni tried to document what was happening, the threat was direct: "Let her take a photo or video so we can have her arrested."
In the video that accompanied the post, Companioni described the intimidation in her own words: "They're going to lock me up, they're going to beat me, etc., etc. So here I am still without water, even more threatened."
At the end of the distribution, she was the only person in her block who did not receive water. "This is an insult, a lack of respect, a violation of human rights. And more repression, more pain," she stated in the video.
Companioni concluded his statement with a warning: "If anything happens to me from now on, I want you to know that it is entirely and completely their responsibility."
This episode is the second public denunciation from Companioni in just a few days.
A few days ago, the same woman had warned about 15 consecutive days without water or electricity in her home, where five people aged between six and 73 live together.
Her six-year-old daughter had 39.5 degrees Celsius fever and her eight-year-old niece was suffering from severe dehydration, with the family unable to even provide them with a cold compress.
"They are killing us. We have gone 15 days without water. I don't even have a way to put a compress on my daughter who has a high fever," she stated.
On that occasion, Companioni went to the command post of the Lawton Government to file a complaint and was threatened with the dispatch of a patrol, being transferred from office to office and sent to the municipal Communist Party, which also did not resolve anything.
Faced with a total lack of water, the family resorted to collecting rainwater for the sick.
Lawton has become one of the main centers of social discontent in Havana. On July 18, residents staged a cacerolazo and burned trash on Dolores Street to protest against power outages.
On July 31, State Security arrested two mothers following a protest, one of whom was with her four-year-old son.
The water crisis affecting Lawton has structural roots: 87% of Havana's pumping system relies on electrical supply, so each prolonged power outage also cuts off the water.
In July 2026, over half a million residents of Havana reported issues due to water scarcity, while nationwide approximately 2.7 million Cubans faced problems with regular access to this resource.
According to data from Cubalex, in June 2026 alone, 319 repressive events were documented in Cuba, and almost half of those affected were ordinary citizens demanding basic services, not political activists.
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