Residents of a Havana neighborhood took the streets in protest on Saturday night over the lack of running water. On top of the chronic blackouts that can last for more than half a day, many Cubans have been dealing with the lack of running water as well. In this particular area of the island’s capital, the water is turned once every eight to 10 days.
Dozens of residents of Havana took to the streets to protest on Saturday night shouting “Turn on the water.”
According to Martí Noticias, the events occurred in the neighborhood of San Francisco de Paula, in the municipality of San Miguel del Padrón in Havana.
The protesters gathered on Calzada de Güines after walking several blocks banging pots and pans, as reported and shown in videos posted on social media.
“The protest started in the small neighborhood of Merceditas due to the water situation. They started protesting from there (…) but the main protest, the crowd of people, was here on Calzada de Güines and Siboney, around 9 pm,” activist Kessell Rodríguez, who participated in the protest, told Martí Noticias.
This time, the demonstration was not related to power outages but to the lack of running water in the area for over ten days, Rodríguez confirmed.
“We’ve been in this situation for a while now, they turn it on every eight or nine days. Recently, Aguas de La Habana made some repairs and installed new plastic pipes. They started providing water again, but it still remains every seven or eight days,” he explained.
Kessell Rodríguez also mentioned that officials from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and State Security were present at the scene to try to calm down the protesters.
Cuba was once a modern country with first-world amenities and a magnet for foreign investment. But after 65 years of socialism, it has become a third-world nation that can’t even provide running water. This is socialism in action.
Savage conditions for lowly savages whose lives do NOT matter. Move along.