State Negligence Kills Mother and Daughter in Trinidad When Their House Collapses

State Negligence Kills Mother and Daughter in Trinidad When Their House
Collapses / CID
Posted on June 4, 2013

Dos crucesIn the early hours of Sunday June 2, a tragedy visited a
humble Cuban family. Luisa M. Isnaga Medinas, a young mother, and her
daughter Idaisil Rivero Medina, age 12, died when their house collapsed
in Trinidad.

The family lived at 460 Antonio Maceo Street between Rosario and Simon
Bolivar, just two blocks from the tourist center where thousands of
foreigners go to visit the World Heritage city, while the homes of the
townspeople are in deplorable conditions.

The neighbors confirmed the numerous complaints made by the family to
the People's Power asking for help with repairs, because it was an old
house with another on the second floor. Property repair inspectors were
to do the assessment but it was not resolved. Instead they indicated
that those who were living there living who had to do the repair because
they had no resources to give them.

While all this was happening the regime installed an expensive and
sophisticated system of video camera surveillance. In the face of the
tragedy the locals wonder "why are they spending thousands of dollars to
monitor the poor, while our houses are collapsing."

Reported by Rene Lozano Maidin Carter and
Ombudsman of Cuba (CID)

3 June 2013

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