The recent creation of the Facebook group “TOURISM BY SEWERS OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA” brought out the impoverished state of the streets and the inefficiency of communal services in that territory.
Created on October 20, the group has 1,494 members, who contribute to draw an X-ray of the situation of unhealthy city and denounces dozens of overflowing graves.
Some are in the Martí neighborhood, where the neighbors say that “there is no place that does not spill poop.” They also affirm that the situation “is very old” and is not resolved.
In the same situation is the area called Micro 7, through whose streets a river of feces runs.
“They send us these images from the neighbors of Micro 10, in the José Martí district. They say that the plague can be felt from many meters, ”says another post on November 8.
Also in Micro 7 there is a student boarding school from which “rotten and pestilential” waters flow.
An uncovered pit is also at the entrance to the Caney industrial gases factory, where medicinal oxygen is produced.
The situation worsens in other areas such as Puente de Marimón, Micro 9 and Mariana Grajales.
Santiago de Cuba has around 73 marginal neighborhoods, which they lack sidewalks and sewers. The endless problems are exacerbated and force its inhabitants to daily deal with the mud and sewage accumulated in the streets.
The complaints indicate that the authorities and organizations that are supposed to ensure the solution of these problems ignore the claims and needs of the neighbors.
In statements to CiberCuba A year ago, a neighbor of Santiago de Cuba said that on several occasions they had addressed complaints to the Municipal and Provincial governments, but had not received responses: “neither the delegate, nor the president of CDR (Committee for the Defense of the Revolution), nor does anyone answer us, we live here in the mud! ”he exclaimed.
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