They steal at Cuban writer’s house Rafael Almanza

Thieves stole this week at the house of the Cuban writer Rafael Almanza in the city of Camagüey in the midst of an increase in crime that has shot in recent years.

«They broke, they entered the saleta where a flat screen television was – that is like the sky – an essential battery to survive during the blackouts and a very good Chinese fan. It was a very risky act, since taking a 42 -inch TV, although it is not heavy, it is a very remarkable object, and no one saw anything. Police was late, very late, «Almanza told Martí News.

Almanza considers that many elders have become alone and that leaves them in a situation of great vulnerability. They are people who «are completely homeless between misery, blackout, criminals and government irresponsibility. For them, everything is quite well,» he explained.

This week the authorities said that a quarter of the population in Cuba is 60 years or more. In 2024 there was a tendency to aging and decrease.

«On December 31 of last year in the country there were 9,748,532 inhabitant, that is more than 300.00 people less than in 2023,» said Juan Carlos Alfonso Faga, Vicejefe of the National Statistics Office (Onei).

Several Cubans consulted by our writing consider robberies are already a daily problem on the island.

Yania, a resident of Camagüey, said that «robberies are in all Cuba, because of the situation so serious. The country.

The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP) recently reported an assault attempt to two young people on a road near Artemis. Iliana Domínguez and her husband, who were circulating on an electric motorcycle, were intercepted by two masked men, but the rapid intervention of an armed passerby with a machete made the aggressors flee, avoiding the robbery.