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Part 4 of the series “Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins.”
Link: Babalú Exclusive – Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins (Part 4 of 6) | Babalú Blog

This link is for the full video in Spanish, since YouTube remove the video with English subtitles.
Link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl1b13_habana-arte-nuevo-de-hacer-ruinas_shortfilms
Part 4 runs from minute 27.57 to 37.22.

The Urban Reform Law of 1960 expropriated the property of urban landowners and the tenements (cuarterias) without compensation. For over 50 years the Castroit regime has been the owner of all buildings. It has not allow the people to sell their homes to other individuals. They only could sell them to the regime, which would determine their value, in detriment of the so call “owner.”
 
The Riomar Building formed by five blocks of horizontal property apartments, was built in 1958. The building blocks are 12 story high with a total of 1,120 apartments, located next to the coastline in Miramar. Nowadays only 14 families live in the center block. As in the case of the Hotel Regina in part four off the series, the building deteriorated gradually due to lack of maintenance during decades. Two of the blocks are in such state of deterioration that they could collapse at any time.


Riomar Building and swimming pool, 1973 photo


Riomar Building and swimming pool, 2013 photo
 
Part 5 of the series “Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins.”
Link: Babalú Exclusive – Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins (Part 5 of 6) | Babalú Blog

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Part 5 runs from minute 37.23 to 42.40

The total collapse of buildings, or the partial ones leaving only its external structure, is awesome. Most of the time the rubble from the collapsed buildings is not clear, blocking the streets and sidewalks, creating hazards for walkers and motorists. It is impressive the state of dilapidation due to lack of paint and regular maintenance for decades. People cannot afford the cost, and paint and construction material are not available.

 
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What can it mean that people should live contentedly in the ruins of their own capital city, the ruination having been brought not by war or natural disaster but by prolonged (and in my view deliberate) neglect? They are not barbarians who actively smash or destroy what they do not understand and value; nor do they fail to notice—how could they?—that the buildings in which they live are on the verge of collapse.


Collapse of building in Centro Habana, February 10, 2015.
 
I believe that Cuba would live again and prosper, and be reborn more powerful and beautiful than ever, and will again be the envy of many. Castro is a psychopath, and has always been one, His sadistic ego alone destroyed Cuba, and he doesn't live in the ruins but he became a ruin.
 
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Theodore Dalrymple writes of the ruins of Havana in his article about the dilapidated city falling apart.

Havana ruins is one of Castro's successful creation. Meanwhile Cuban children die under collapsing buildings while Castro’s fans post rubbish from their comfy armchairs in London and New York.
 
How sad that little children die under collapsing buildings due to the deliberated neglect of the Castroit regime which is responsible for their death.
 
As buildings collapse due to heavy rains, the island economy keep going down the drain. In a few more years under the Castroit regime the dilapidation of the Cuban buildings falling apart, would bring to memory the devastation of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb.

Hiroshima - Habana
As buildings collapse due to heavy rains, the island economy keep going down the drain. In a few more years under the Castroit regime the dilapidation of the Cuban buildings falling apart, would bring to memory the devastation of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb.

Hiroshima - Habana
 
Hiroshima - Habana


Panoramic view of Havana, 2013

As Humberto (Bert) Corzo says: “Castroism had caused more lasting damage to the city of Havana than an earthquake or the atomic bomb. Castro's desire is becoming a reality, what he couldn’t accomplish during the missile crisis with nuclear warheads stationed in Cuba, the extinction of the island in a nuclear confrontation, he is accomplishing it through the course of time.”
 
I blame the Castroit regime Minister of the Interior for the killing of children, women and men. Their lives were cut short before they were born 55 years ago, when Fidel Castro became a murderous communist tyrant.

How many more boats like the "13 de Marzo" tugboat, sank by the regime boats (41 people drowned, 10 of them children), the riverboat "XX Aniversario”, machine gun, rammed and sank by the regime boats (48 of the 60 people on board were killed), and the yacht "Pretexto”, attack with machine guns by a regime navy vessel (5 people die, 24 sentenced to 20 years in prison), the Castroit military regime has sank in the last 55 years, sending to their death many innocent children, women and men? Like the icebergs, where only ten per cent of the mass is visible above the water surface, the rest below the surface isn’t. The same happens with these mass murders of innocent people, where only ten per cent is of common knowledge, the rest below the surface isn’t known up to now.
 
The regime change of the age of adulthood and criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 years, gave it the legal framework to send minors to the fire squad. The Cuban Archives had proved the execution by fired squad of 22 minors from 1959 to May 2004. How many more minors have been killed and will be killed by the sadistic Castroit tyrannical regime?
 
VICTIMS UNDER AGE 18 OF THE CASTRO REGIME IN CUBA

Summary Report

May 5, 2004 Truth Recovery Archive on Cuba. Reports – Cuba Archive

DOCUMENTED DEATHS: 94

FIRING SQUAD EXECUTIONS: 22

EXTRAJUDICIAL ASSASSINATIONS: 32

ASSASSINATED IN EXIT ATTEMPTS: 24

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE IN PRISON: 1

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS - EXIT ATTEMPTS: 3

KILLED IN COMBAT: 12
 
Prices of local and national and international long distance were raised January 1, 2014. According to data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics and Information, in 2012 the island had only 3,008,867 lines in operation, and 41% of the fixed telephone installs are obsolete.

ETECSA, A Bankrupt Monopoly
ETECSA, A Bankrupt Monopoly / Pablo Pascual Mendez Pina – Translating Cuba

The Castroit regime has not even been able to double the capacity Cuba had in 1959, when there were eight landlines for every hundred residents and it ranked 14th in the world in terms of telephone coverage. Only 5% of Cubans has unrestricted access to the internet. Even Haiti has been able to extended mobile service close to 85% of the population in a very short period of time.
 
Telecom is no longer part of the ETECSA partnership, it is under the management of GAE, a business arm of the MINIT. ETECSA has become a military organization. The main reason for slowing the increase in capacity of the private phone service is the monitoring capabilities of the MINIT’ surveillance system, known as K1 and K2, which required a 100% surveillance capability.
 
In a speech on June 17, 1968, Fidel Castro said: “And daily milk production ought to increase 4 million liters more a year. In other words, if we attain 4 million in 1970, we will attain 8 million in 1971; 12 million in 1972. The rate will increase until we reach a production of 30 million liters of milk a day in 1975!”

As early as 1962, when the law establishing the ration booklet was passed, milk was rationed to one liter only for children up to 7 years old and adults with special diet. The production of milk in 1958 was 784 million liters per year with a consumption of 119 liters per capita. By 2011 the production has declined to 582 million liters with a consumption of only 52 liters per capita, a 56% declined. Unbelievable! Another among many of the industries obliterated by the Castroit regime.
 
In a speech on January 30, 1969, Fidel Castro said: “Of course, our traditional cattle are Zebu, an animal which is resistant to heat and other adverse tropical conditions. In other words, it is an animal which is quite resistant but does not produce milk. We need Holstein cows as foundation stock to develop some new cattle breeds and above all to produce hybrids of dairy cattle and Zebu cattle....
Suffice it to say that in 1975 Havana Province will have 9,500 caballerias producing milk.
This gives you an idea of our country's possibilities....
At the present time, Havana Province has 60,000 Zebu cattle which have arrived in the last few months and it will have some 250,000 by year's end....

We should have some 600,000 dairy cows and the province will achieve something else, something that seemed difficult some time ago, in the future it will be self-sufficient in meats.”

The results of the artificial insemination of Holstein cattle with Cebu to develop the new breed of cattle F-1, which would have the milk production of the Holstein and the resistance of the Cebu was a completed failure.

The progressive deterioration of the cattle stock, which from 5.9 million head of cattle and a population of 6.6 million in 1958 equivalent to 0.9 heads of cattle per capita, fourth in the world, has been reduced to 4.06 head of cattle with a population of 11.2 million in 201, equivalent to 0.36 heads of cattle per capita, due to the absurd dairy cattle project of the Castroit regime.
 
 
The Castroit regime draconian laws, don’t allow Cubans to board any vessel. The regime, in violation of maritime international laws, don’t allow doesn’t matter where they reside, from entering the island through seaports. The regime Naval Command center says that “No Cuban is authorized to navigate in Cuba. The only exception are those married to citizens of another country, who must request a permit beforehand.”
 
The Castroit regime survive because of the subsidies from the Soviet Union and Venezuela. Now that the Venezuela subsidies had been cut in half, the Obama administration is throwing it a lifeline.

Carnival Corp. will be operating the cruises under Carnival's new “fathom” brand, which is dedicated to “social impact travel.” Progressives will be lining up for these “social impact” cruises at $3,000 per person for a seven day cruise. They would be watching the Cuban people in their cages in the island of Dr. Castro, as they were monkeys in a zoo.
 
Paris Club: Cuba Remains 2nd Most Indebted Nation
Capitol Hill Cubans: Paris Club: Cuba Remains 2nd Most Indebted Nation

The Paris Club, a group composed of the world’s 19 largest creditor nations, has released its annual list of outstanding claims (debtors).

These claims are held either by The Paris Club member States directly, or through their appropriate institutions (especially export credit or official development aid agencies) on behalf of the member States.

Cuba owes $35.193 billion, which makes it The Paris Club’s 2nd most indebted nation. This represents a $5 billion increase from 2011. That same year, Indonesia was the largest debtor with $40.679 billion owed. Yet, this year, Indonesia’s debt has decreased to $29.297 billion, and most indebted nation is Greece, which owes $70.305 billion.
 
What the Castroit regime really wants are loans and lines of credit guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury Department, since it doesn’t have hard currency to pay the interests on the lines of credit for the importation of merchandise.

These credits will not be paid and the American taxpayers will be the losers, the ones to pick up the debt, as it happens at the present time with the taxpayers of many countries. By 2014 the Castroit regime’s foreign debt amounted to $35 billion with The Paris Club, 35 billion with Russia, 10 billion with China, 25 billion with Venezuela, 3.5 billion with Japan and another 8.5 billion with other countries, for a total staggering debt of $117 billion.
 
Cuban economy’s bankruptcy is the sole responsibility of Castroit regime. It is due to the corruption and ineffectiveness of a military dictatorship that is against private property and free enterprise. Under this system the economy will continuous to deteriorate without any hope of improvement. These and no others are the real reasons of the problems.
 
Raul Castro is impulsive, dogmatic and sometimes brutal, in 1959, during the surrender of Santiago, the second largest Cuban city; Raul presided over the execution of more than 70 soldiers and officers who were machine-gunned and their corpses thrown into a ditch.

There is an aspect seldom commented of Raul Castro’s life and the fact is that in all the “judicial” processes of great importance that have taken place in Cuba after the triumph of the insurrection, has played a fundamental role. He has been a kind of special prosecutor, a prosecutor with the capacity to sanction.
 
Those Cubans who lived and suffered under the Castroit regime do know and will never forget that while Fidel was the voice, Raul, Che, and others like Ramiro Valdés were the hammer and sickle of the revolution crushing and decapitating fellow Cubans.

Not only is the Castroit regime evil and violent, it is also inept at governing the incredible resources and ingenuity of the Cuban people. They have managed to completely destroy the sugar industry, mining, and now rely on foreign companies to help keep afloat what is left of tourism and tobacco.

For near sixty years the Castroit regime has waged a war against its number one enemy, the Cuban people. They have violently denied the people of Cuba their rights and dignity as human beings. Their army of corrupt thugs harass, arrest, and torture anyone remotely perceived as a threat to the Castro mafia family total hold on power.
 
Raul Castro, as Defense Minister, is responsible for war crimes in and out of Cuba. During the rural uprising of the sixties, his armed forces executed hundreds of prisoners on the spot. During the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, five prisoners were executed shortly after their capture and nine were deliberately asphyxiated in a trailer truck. The toll of victims multiplies over the course of decades with Cuba’s international military incursions in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Intentional attacks on civilian populations in Angola are part of his legacy.
 
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