SANTIAGO DE CUBA, January 29 (Luis Alberto Rivera, APLO) – Garbage hasn’t
been picked-up in two weeks in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second
largest city, because the municipal entity in charge of the service doesn’t
have the trucks to do the job.
An official of the Municipal Services Enterprise, who asked not to be
identified, said that the trucks they had been using to pick up garbage had been
borrowed from the Sugar Ministry, but that once the sugar harvest started, the
ministry took them back.
The man explained that the only truck in good repair the department has is
used to pick up in the central areas of the city that tourists tend to visit.
Residents in other areas have been reduced to piling garbage in corners for
later burning. Those who can, pay anyone with a horse- or ox-drawn cart to dump
it in the outskirts of the city.
In the José Martí district, a residential area of
government-built six-story buildings, residents have piled the garbage so high
that it can be seen from a distance.
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