Each municipality will be sponsored by a ministry so that garbage collection is carried out regularly
14ymedio, Havana, 4 October 2024 — That Cuban PresidentMiguel Díaz-Canel walks through the neighborhoods of Havana to admire the titanic garbage dumps populating the city seems more like a rumor than a reality. This Friday, the official press reports the president’s excursion in the streets of the capital the day before, specifically to the Diez de Octubre neighborhood, where they say that the authorities have found “the formula” to contain the waste.
Freshly arrived from a tour of Las Tunas and Holguín, Díaz-Canel claims to have visited the Havana municipality to verify the “good reports about the work that is being done” thanks to the sponsorship of the ministries of Agriculture and Labor and Social Security, in addition to the watchful eye of the Central Committee of the Party. The strategy, repeated on countless occasions, is to demonstrate that only with the direct intervention from the summit are orders fulfilled at the local level. Díaz-Canel baptized the new State crusade as the “garbage issue contingency.”
So far, “they have managed to recover parks previously full of garbage, stabilize the collection of solid waste, paint trash containers and clear the ground of invasive grass,” lists the state newspaper Granma, saying that in the coming weeks there will be other visits by the president to the municipality to “know the experience” and replicate it in other areas of the capital that will be, in turn, supported by other ministries.
“Today you see parks that were once sadly converted into micro-dumps, full of children, older adults, students doing physical education. It is a different atmosphere at any time of the day in these parks. Although there is still a lot to do, we have to continue gaining in the culture of detail,” President Lisara Corona, first secretary of the Communist Party in the Diez de Octubre n
