havana/A symbol of the regime he created in 1965 and his oldest press organ, the newspaper Granny It reaches the remote areas of Cuba with great difficulty, where there are still readers – few and all with gray hair – who trust what, under the leadership of the Communist Party, is printed on its pages. He complained about the “disconnection” with the red and black newspaper this Friday An attackerother official media whose distribution is experiencing the worst time.
Osmayda Valdés, director of the Ciego de Ávila Post Office and the “postal authority” of the region, appear in front of the cameras –An attacker he has a television segment – to justify his station and explain why the usual delay in arrival Granny and other national newspapers, such as Rebel Youth.
With a choppy speech, Valdés explained that the newspapers do not come from Havana and are not printed – as several regions are – in any Avilanian printing press, but that you have to go to look for them in Sancti Spíritus, who will then take the packages from Villa Clara, whose polygraph is the only one in the area that has the conditions to print the edition. It is a logical form through crosses, he explained, claiming that it is obvious: “The media is daily.”
In the past, the copies they had to distribute were sent to the Post Office. “Now we have to go look for them,” laments Valdés, who became complicated when he was describing a route – even more difficult – of transport that was going all a day from Camagüey to Villa Clara, and when he returned he was distributing the packages at the post offices.
In the past, the copies they had to distribute were sent to the Post Office. “Now we have to go look for them”
“What are the rational causes of this problem?” asked the interviewer. “We have received many complaints from the public, because they do not receive the media every day. ” Valdés summed up the problem in one sentence: “Postman case.” Of the 35 needed in the province, only eight are working. “The part of Vistahermosa, in the town of Ciego de Ávila, is the most affected because we do not have a single postman in that area,” he said.
The interviewer then asked about fuel, since one of the main justifications that Correos gives, she said, is that there is no way to transport it from one place to another for delivery. “It’s not like that,” Valdés defended himself. Work is being done in the city center, although not enough. “The biggest problem is in the municipalities,” especially Morón, Gaspar and Baraguá.
The official was radical: in the municipalities there is no fuel or transport “or anything.” “An agreement had to be made with the Parcelan Company. We use their transport so that we can deliver the media two or three times a week, it depends on the consistency with which they deliver the fuel.”
An attacker He continued his account of the “numerous complaints” and focused on the subscribers, who provide money to obtain state newspapers without, until now, receiving any information about compensation. for waiting or lack of newspapers. “This was a long time ago,” said the journalist. “Today many don’t get it. And they tell us that they have paid and they are not getting it.”
Valdés washed his hands and said that the registrar had every right to complain, but did not specify to whom or under what circumstances. “Since there is no poster to deliver them, it is the responsibility of the town. When a postman is employed – who has to have special conditions because he has to provide the checkbook, social support, he has to pay money orders, carry parcels and certified letters – and the workers to make it stable, the registrar will not be affected and he is going to renew the contract,” he promised.
The officer got to the point of the conversation she was interested in: telling the crowd that the Post Office is hiring postmen. With their employees reduced by the immigration and labor stamp, the company offers positions. “At other times we didn’t have transport for posters but now we do,” he said. These are not the cars and trucks that were once used, but “Niagara bikes in good condition.”
“The main issue is the location of the post. We have already given the number of vacant places to the Ministry of Labor so that all the workers who go there can be sent to the company and we can make the confirmations. Transportation is guaranteed, which is not personal,” he concluded.
‘Invasor’ has been denying for years the failures that Valdés said this Friday as “temporary”
An attacker been in denial for years the decisions that Valdés – who has been in office for less than a year – described this Friday as “temporary” and dependent on the transport situation. Last February, when Lídisy Rodríguez was head of the Post Office, the newspaper lamented “the lack of human resources that many organizations complain about.”
The article was a belated response to the complaint made by several subscribers in 2023, and published in the letters section Straitjacket. Then, a reader identified as Arquímides Morales complained against the lack of responsibility of Correos, which had not given him a copy of the document. Granny.
Morales explained why: they had burned all the posts that worked in their area “as a measure against possible criminal activity,” and since then the service had been working precariously.
Correos apologized An attacker insisting that Morales lived in a barred building, and that the postman could not leave his “valuables” – bicycle, packages, money, letters, etc. – on the ground floor, and that he could wait for the interested person to come down to hand deliver the mail. In three and a half hours – from 7:30 to 11 a.m. – a poster had to 400 copies of Granny200 of Rebel Youth400 of Workers and 400 of An attacker.
In 2023, An attacker He asked a question against Correos: “Do you really have to be spent making complaints…? We are waiting, like Archimedes, for an answer and, hopefully, you will be able to read it for yourself on these pages, in time.” Months later, in an article in February, the problem continued and the newspaper said: “Apparently not in person or through these pages, Arquímides Morales López will be able to read the answer.”
