An outraged Cuban lashed out at the government while filling a couple of tanks with water on the beach in the province of killingsbut in a place close to an area where, according to what he said, there is a spring.
“Getting a little water here on the beach because they say that there is no water in Matanzas… with a pile of springs that are here. Now they will see me throwing a bucket of water at me so I can bathe, because I don’t have water in my house”, explained the citizen shortly before pouring half a bucket of water on himself.
“There is no water, there is no food, there is no current, they kill us already for the hell…. I have nothing. Here, pouring water into the tank because I don’t have water in my house or to cook or to wash my bottom…or anything,” added the man from Matanzas in a video shared on social networks.
The citizen criticized that something like this happens in Matanzas, a territory in which he assured that there are many springs.
“This is impudent, yes there is water, what the negotiations do not do, they do not care about the town, yes there is water… and short I have to go bathe”concluded the visibly angry Cuban.
In the comments section of the publication, dozens of Cubans lamented the perennial scarcity and crisis that residents of the country are victims of, and some agreed that only by taking to the streets to protest can the crisis be definitively stopped.
Others described bathing in seawater as “crazy”.
Last week the local press from Matanzas reported that the breakage of the motor of a pumping station in the capital municipality of that province had seriously affected the water supply.
However, the water supply crisis has spread to almost the entire island in recent weeks, which has led to occasional demonstrations of popular discontent for that reason.
At the end of June a mother blocked a street in Old Havana with her two youngest daughters and empty containers to claim drinking water and the end of the continuous power cuts in that municipality. After the protest, the authorities sent a water pipe and promised to restore electricity in that municipality.
That same day, residents of Boyeros, in Havana, also protested the scarcity of water, during a visit to that municipality by the first secretary of the Party in the province, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar.
Earlier this month, desperate for the lack of water supply, a Cuban family placed a huge poster on the balcony of his home in the Colón municipality, in Matanzas, with a request for help. According to reports on social networks, moments later two water pipes appeared for the building.
