The greatest effects, including severe damage to agriculture and electricity networks, were concentrated in the municipalities of El Cotorro, San Miguel, Arroyo Naranjo and Boyeros
14ymedio, Havana, April 24, 2024 — Once again, the Cuban Council of Ministers approved the financing for 50% of the cost of construction materials needed by the victims of the intense rains of March 22 and 23 in Havana, which caused 26 total and 122 partial building collapses.
The greatest effects, including severe damage to agriculture and electricity networks, were concentrated in the municipalities of El Cotorro, San Miguel, Arroyo Naranjo and Boyeros, according to the state newspaper Granma.
The Government’s decision is similar to that of other catastrophes, such as Hurricane Sandy, which devastated Santiago de Cuba in 2012, and Hurricane Ian, which did the same in Pinar del Río in 2022. However, it had little effect on the reconstruction of the lost assets.
One year after Hurricane Ian, barely 45% of the affected houses had been repaired
One year after Hurricane Ian, for example, and according to official data, it had barely been possible to repair 45% of the affected houses, and only 3% of the collapsed ones were raised again, not to mention the situations of Sandy’s thousands of victims, many of whom were abandoned to their fate.
The Unofficial Gazette, which in two par
