HAVANA, August 10 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI) - "Everything seems to indicate that they are making fun of me because I am a woman alone, old and black," said Laudelina Cardona Correoso. After ten years facing the bureaucracy and institutional indiference trying to get her dwelling
repaired, all she has to show for her efforts is a house in worse shape than before the repairs started.
Cardona said that five brigades have worked in the repairs to the house and the roof still leaks like a sieve, and in addition they broke the bathroom, stove in the floor in the living room, and caused other damages that they haven’t corrected. They also stole some of her personal
possesions and the electric installation.
"In other houses they have done a good job. In my case, they permanently shuttered the kitchen window without even asking me, for the benefit of a neighbor... but I can’t offer bottles of rum to the workers. I can share what little I have, and I did that, but evidently it wasn’t
enough."
Cardona lives in the Havana neighborhood of Lawton, by the railroad tracks and between the bus terminal and the "Julio A. Mella" slaughterhouse.
Neighbors have known her as "Laude" in the 48 years she has lived there. "It’s a modest house, but when it was in good shape, I lived comfortably and in peace," she says.
Cardona added: "I don’t know to whom I am going to complain any more. When it rains at night, I can’t sleep; I have to crawl into a corner to stay dry.
Those responsible for this mess haven’t been able to stop the abuses, the theft and the shabby way they have treated my house, my things and myself."
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