The arrival of the crisis in the economy has historically coincided
with the "Storm of the Century", a tropical cyclone that flooded
the entire capital and completely destroyed the facade of the building that was already deteriorating by the sea.
In the following months, the foreigners were removed from
the apartments and the Cubans remained with the promise
that they would be removed later.
Today, 26 years later, 14 Cuban families continue to live
in the building declared uninhabitable by the government.
The beach of Puntilla, full of rubble, remains of the building,
is currently visited by hundreds of people who, with reverence
to the forces of nature, bring offerings to Yemanja.
Sierra Maestra is today a monument forgotten in time.
Every cracked wall and every steel beam twisted by history
and by nature are the marks of a country in which
changes are felt in the skin.