Cuba. The theft of the cable caused a telephone communication failure in Havana

On Sunday, in the part of the Cuban capital there were serious disturbances of telephone communication. According to the media, the reason was the theft of a cable fragment. At the same time, it was noted that such failures occur on an island in crisis more and more often.

The authorities on Sunday Cuba They informed about the serious disturbances of telephone communication in two Havana districts: Boyeros and El Chico. As it turned out, the reason was 600 meters of telephone cable – wrote the daily “Tribuna de la Habana”. It is not known how serious this failure turned out to be. According to the journal, there were at least about a thousand subscribers without coverage.

Local media also notice that for two years such failures have been more and more often – since the beginning of this year there have been a theft of telephone cables in various districts of the Cuban capital since the beginning of this year. According to the State Enterprise Telecunicaciones de Cuba, thieves are primarily stealing copper cables, which can be sold with great profit on the black market.

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Kuba in crisis

The theft of public property is one of the phenomena accompanying the long -term economic crisis in Cuba. His visible manifestation is the shortages of the first necessity in stores and daily interruptions in the supply of electricity. One of the last major failures occurred in mid -March. It was the fourth mass Blackout in half a year and made almost two -thirds of Cubans cut off from electricity. Caused the internet and telephone communication to be turned off, and even the supply of basic products to stores.

The daily “Tribuna de la habana” adds that the most severe for Cubans is, however, an almost threefold increase in the prices of goods and services in the last four years and the progressive “dollarization” of the market. The current economic and social crisis on the island ruled by the communists is considered one of the most severe revolution from the 1950s conducted under Fidel Castro. It is estimated that an island inhabited by 11 million people, 89 percent The population lives in extreme poverty.

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