CIEGO DE AVILA, October 30 (José Carlos Morgado, FCDH) – Police
and municipal inspectors evicted four families from their "homes" in
the Roberto Rivas Fragas district in Ciego de Ávila last week.
The inspectors from the Municipal Housing Authority demolished the four "houses"
in the community known as "the landless." "The landless"
consists of more than fifty families that, having nowhere to live, have
collected scraps of zinc, wood and cardboard from local waste dumps to build the
sheds where they live.
Several of these sheds are on the margins of the city’s waste water
ditch. Housing inspectors and police continually go into the area, demolishing
the structures and threatening people to force them to leave. As a result,
entire families end up living out in the open for long periods of time.
The government boasts that no child in Cuba sleeps out in the open. "Let
them come out of their comfortable offices and come here so they can see with
their own eyes," said one of the dispossesed, who asked that his name not
be used.
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