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landslide in my house. A next door neighbor
phoned my daughter and said, " Your mother’s house fell", but I did not find out until
two months later, because in the midst of the
commotion she decided to conceal the truth
in order to prevent us from suffering.
MC: What caused the collapse?
TR: The culprit was the neighbor of the
floor below, who started making some
repairs without the assistant of an architect
or anyone who knew about construction. He
paid some young people who were not even
masons and they removed a capital from a
load bearing column. As a resulted, two
rooms and the balcony of my house collapsed. My children did not want to tell me
and my husband anything, because he had
suffered ischemia due to high blood pressure
and they were afraid it would happen again.

MC: How old are you both?
TR: My husband is 86 and I'm going to be
84.
MC: Where was the house located?
TR: E Street, between 27 and 29 Streets, in
El Vedado neighborhood.
MC: Who were in the house when it
collapsed?
TR: My oldest daughter and her husband,
but luckily they were in the back of the
house and the firefighters were able to get
them out through the window of the kitchen,
in view of the danger at the front. The floor
was bent at the bedrooms and it was very
risky to get out through the front door.

The house after
collapsing

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