American activists exchange views with CIGB scientists

The American activists Abby Martin, Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist, Benjamin Samuel Baker, Editor-in-Chief of Breakthroung News, and Manolo de los Santos, Founder and Co-CEO of People’s Forum, Today visited the neighborhood of La Corbata, It is located in the municipality of Playa Havana.

Accompanied by Gerardo Hernández Nordillo, National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), Visitors learn about the lifestyle of the residents of that community and the transformation procedures The neighbors and the authorities undertake to change the environment of that site in case of weakness.

Osman Limagen Bages, delegate of the 80th district of the Cuban People’s Assembly, where La Corbata is located, explained to Martin, Baker and de los Santos the problems affecting the region, including electricity, an emergency that affects everything in the country.

select it Since the beginning of rehabilitation activities, the construction situation of 90 houses has been improved.which its residents already own.

Lemagne Pagés detailed the construction of the mixed warehouse for La Corbata and said that before owning this space to purchase subsidized food, it was acquired by consumers in La Lisa municipal units.

Irina Serra Bodio, regional coordinator of the Development and Reconstruction Registry, added that in addition to the basket of the organized and guaranteed family for the entire population, the Cuban state implements programs for the care of people in vulnerable situations, who can be mothers with three or more children, and people with disabilities. and those who live alone without their own means to support themselves.

Martin said it is very moving to see the changes being made in Cuba, a country with many restrictions, which have become incentives for joint action between government and society.

He stressed that his compatriots know little about the largest of the Antilles and its revolution, since the media is financed by major corporations that operate under the capitalist system and destroy the Cuban image.

American activists learned about the La Corbata Cultural Technology Center and district park, where plastic artists such as Alexis Leva Machado (Kchoo) and ministries such as transportation and tourism stepped in to turn it into a place of recreation and enjoyment.

Photo: ACN.

Photo: ACN.

(with information from ACN)