From our Bureau of Leftist Brats Who Wreck Their Toys with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Approaches to Urban Hygiene and Pestilence Control
As usual, Castro, Inc. has managed to wreck over forty percent of the trash collection equipment donated as a gift by Japan back in 2018-2019. That equipment included 100 garbage haulers, 40 dump trucks, 25 mini loaders, 50 motorized pruners, 25 chainsaws, and 15 pickup trucks. Right now, only 57 of those hundred garbage haulers are functioning, and it is highly likely that all the other equipment donated by Japan has received the same care as the garbage trucks.
Meanwhile, in the midst of a dengue and oropouche epidemic, Havana’s streets keep filling up with ever-growing trash piles. Socialism in action means inaction!
Loosely translated from CiberCuba
Following the breakdown of dozens of trucks donated by Japan, the Provincial Directorate of Communal Services of Havana is facing a total crisis due to the low availability of equipment for garbage collection and the increase in cubic meters of waste per day.
According to a report published in the official newspaper Granma, the entity has only 57 percent of the fleet available, while the capital generates 30,108 cubic meters of garbage daily.
It should be noted that in 2023 the territory produced 23,814 cubic meters, but at that time it relied on Japanese donations, which between 2018 and 2019 provided Cuba with 100 garbage collection trucks.
Additionally, the Asian territory delivered 40 dump trucks, 25 mini loaders, 50 motorized pruners, 25 chainsaws, and 15 pickup trucks intended for the control and supervision of processes.
Likewise, the most important force, the Hino brand trucks, began to show breakdowns in parts, pieces, and aggregates, with no agile solutions in sight.
Currently, almost half of those units are out of service, and there is little or nothing that can be done: “The supplier company left the island, and due to the blockade, it is now impossible to sell the necessary supplies for their repair, either directly or indirectly,” reads the journalistic text.
In this regard, the entity pointed out that today only 45% of the tractors and 51% of the dump trucks can complete a workday, a fleet unable to collect waste in a city of almost two million inhabitants, according to recently disclosed figures.
The fuel crisis, resource diversion, and lack of workers also take their toll: “The managerial position is vacant or in the process of being filled in Arroyo Naranjo, Cerro, Centro Habana, San Miguel del Padrón, and Marianao, municipalities almost all with a complex situation,” explained Miguel Gutiérrez Lara, head of the Supervision Group of the Inspection of the Provincial Government of Havana.
Given this scenario, which extends nationwide, the proliferation of filth and the increase in diseases during the summer can be understood, such as vomiting and diarrhea caused by flies; leptospira associated with rats, and dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and Oropouche, according to statements by the epidemiologist from the National Rehabilitation Hospital Julito Díaz, Belkis Aracelis Barrera.