Intense Mobilization for Capital Clean-Up Underway

Dozens of images of a massive and enthusiastic public mobilization over the weekend, aimed at the sanitation and cleaning of communities in the capital, are being published today on social media and institutional websites. They all demonstrate how the call from the country's top leadership to engage in this important task received a positive response from Party cadres, government officials, mass organizations, central state administration bodies, local People's Power organs, workplaces, members of armed institutions, and residents of the cleaned areas.

Government Ministries and Officials Lead by Example

On the Facebook profile of the Ministry of Communications (Micom), a post stated that this Sunday, the Príncipe Popular Council and the transforming neighborhoods of La Timba, La Dionisia, and El Fanguito were filled with energy, will, and love for Cuba during a new voluntary work day that reaffirms "how much we can achieve when we unite for the common good." Participants included members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and workers from Micom, ETECSA, Correo de Cuba, and GEIC, alongside other local entities, municipal authorities, and factors from the popular councils.

Inés María Chapman, the Vice Prime Minister, wrote on the network alongside photos: "Being part of the solution and not the problem, together we can care for the place where we live. In Havana, cleaning work is being carried out in all municipalities, unity and achieving sustainability."

Eduardo Rodríguez, the Minister of Transport, noted on his Facebook profile that, as in other sectors, the transport sector worked to improve Havana's hygiene. Collectives from Superior Organizations of Economic Management, companies, and various institutions collaborated in this purpose in areas near their headquarters.

Grassroots Efforts and Community Engagement

A director from the central office of the OSDE GEICON wrote, "We joined the sanitation work in our surroundings. It is a practice in our center to keep it clean and organized, including its exteriors. This time, we focused on the culture of detail, while several companies in our group are working on community hygiene in Central Havana with equipment and personnel."

Roilán Rodríguez, the First Secretary of the Party in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, indicated on social media that they "worked hard until the intense afternoon rain did not allow us to continue." He added, "This Monday we continue. In the Puentes Grandes Popular Council, the battle for cleaning and sanitation is ongoing," concluding with photos as evidence.

In sites in Old Havana like the San Juan de Dios Park and the surroundings of the stop where the A40 route begins its journey to the Eastern beaches, workers from the Ministries of Finance and Prices and Interior Trade mobilized on Sunday with their main cadres at the forefront, joined by forces from the municipality itself.

Radio Progreso posted on its Facebook profile: "A different Sunday, answering the call of our Institute of Information and Communication (ICS) in the Nueva Creación Community, in Cotorro."

Regarding this, one of the organization's workers, Loypa Mercado, specified on the same network:
"Yesterday, during the clean-up day in Cotorro, the workers of the ICS (Institute of Social Communication) were present. A committed delegate, the coordinator of the CDR [Committees for the Defense of the Revolution], the locals who received us with love and were very grateful. All united in some way, we contribute to a cleaner city. There was no shortage of someone who made us coffee, mended a shoe, and a CDR president who offered us her house—she even wanted to make us some croquettes."