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FROM
CUBA
Leaning post causes dissension among neighbors
HAVANA, May 13 (José Antonio Fornaris,
Cuba-Verdad / www.cubanet.org) - Residents
of Sofía Street, in the Párraga
neighborhood of Havana, spent months feuding
over a leaning light pole that threatened
to fall on one of their houses until they
decided to pool their resources and solve
a simple problem the electric company refused
to take care of.
The utility, the owner of the pole, said
it did not have a crane suitable to remove
it and kept refusing to take care of it,
even after repeated entreaties by the residents.
One of the neighbors, Yunisbel, said: "Two
or three of us went to talk to the director
of the electric company and he told us:
'I don't care if it falls on your heads,'
because he didn't have a crane available
to remove the pole."
"The pole became a problem for the
neighbors, because the Fernández
family, whose house the pole threatened
to fall on, said we all got power from the
pole but didn't want to do anything about
it," said Yunisbel.
She explained that the neighbors finally
pooled 400 pesos and paid them to the operator
of a government-owned crane to take down
the pole.
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