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CUBA
Havana park has become garbage dump
HAVANA, Cuba, November 3 (Lázaro
García / www.cubanet.org) - The Fábrica
Street park, in the Luyanó neighborhood
of Havana, has become a garbage dump due
to the municipality's neglect.
What grass is there is overgrown, about
two feet tall, all the fixtures in the playground
are broken, and there are no lights. To
boot, the four corners have been used as
a garbage dump, but there are no containers,
so when the municipal workers use mechanical
equipment to pick up the piles, they have
torn up the paving at the corners, which
now fill up with water when it rains.
In any case, the pick up service cannot
keep up with the amount of garbage dumped
there, so there are always piles festering,
with vermin running through them.
"The park is very dangerous; bad people
lurk there and there could be an outbreak
of some sort, with all the flies and rats,"
said Esperanza, who said she has lived in
the area for 70 years.
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