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The Cuban writer Wendy Guerra Torres has issued a powerful denunciation of the humanitarian crisis in Cuba in a poignant text published on her social media.
Your message, which has gone viral in recent hours, not only describes the collapse of basic services on the island but also directly calls on the international community to urgently pay attention to the magnitude of the social, health, and human disaster that the Cuban people are experiencing.
Guerra, who has built a solid literary career from exile, has given voice to a collective pain that rarely finds space in major international media.
With a sharp and uncompromising gaze, he speaks of collapsed hospitals, children left to fend for themselves, citizens isolated after natural disasters, and an entire population surviving amid hunger, lack of medicine, social chaos, and systematic censorship.
His analysis, more than an opinion, has turned into a cry for help.
The text not only denounces but also demands accountability.
The writer claims that the Cuban State has abandoned its duty to protect the people, clinging to a utopia that no longer exists and that only serves as a pretext to repress, silence, and punish.
"My nation is mortally wounded," he warns, making it clear that the situation in Cuba is not a temporary crisis, but rather a profound anthropological damage that threatens to leave irreversible consequences on the very fabric of society.
And it concludes with one of the most blunt statements of its entire analysis: the Cuban government, unable to save its people, must resign immediately.
For Wendy Guerra, it is not just a political responsibility but an urgent moral obligation. If those in power do not hand over the country to those who can save it, they will be marked in history as the executioners of a nation on the brink of extermination.
Here is the complete text published by Wendy Guerra on Facebook:
The international community needs to know. Please: I ask all my colleagues, friends, editors and translators, agents and journalists in all languages to read and share.
In #Cuba, right now, thousands of people are dying or suffering due to the proliferation of known or unknown diseases and viruses, unleashed by the profound unsanitary conditions prevalent across the island. The country has become a giant landfill, while the authorities either play games, feign concern, or look the other way.
Hospitals and pharmacies lack medicines and resources for Cuban doctors, who are overwhelmed with cases, to control an epidemic that, not being declared a national emergency, prevents the entry of assistance from international cooperation organizations.
To maintain a non-existent utopia—this matters more to them—than the lives of an entire people. At this moment, children, young people, and the elderly have been left to their fate in their homes or in hospitals and clinics, overwhelmed with patients.
There is only public transportation available to reach healthcare centers. Following Hurricane Melissa, hundreds of Cuban citizens living in the eastern part of the country find themselves isolated in remote areas, where their homes and belongings have been destroyed.
Every day, thousands of people go to bed hungry, or they have nothing to eat for breakfast before setting out to face their day. Salaries are not enough to buy food, soap, detergent for bathing, washing clothes, or transportation to get around towns and cities.
Today's Cuba is utter chaos, where only a handful manage to survive the social collapse; and those few lack the guarantees needed to sustain their businesses, constantly threatened and controlled by the long reach of the authorities.
Chemical drugs have emerged that alter and affect the will of adolescents and adults, who wake up sprawled on the streets, lost or seizing. Hundreds of homeless people sift through mountains of garbage every day in search of something to eat or wear.
The newspapers and international agencies with correspondents on the island have been dismissed for attempting to report the truth about what is happening there. The news bureaus that still survive are forced to soften the reality to avoid being expelled.
Independent journalists who are not imprisoned, "regulated," or exiled risk their freedom by telling stories that the rest of the world finds difficult to edit because they sound like dystopia.
Power outages, lack of water, and above all, family separation and dislocation, are the daily reality for Cubans. The hope for the return of electricity, children, grandchildren, parents, and siblings is the daily plea on the island.
The people, prevented by decree from protesting or expressing what is happening there, survive under a thick silence, and it is this mutism that is the only thing keeping them away from the prisons where thousands of Cubans remain locked up after peacefully taking to the streets.
Exile financially supports a significant portion of the Cuban population by sending money, medicines, and food for survival. Paradoxically, for the Cuban state, that same exile, which keeps them alive with oxygen, personifies its greatest enemy.
Silence is the punishment imposed by militants, leaders, and dictators of a single party that, in four years, like the USSR, will have been in power for 70 years.
My nation is mortally wounded; the rest of the world must know how profound the anthropological damage is.
The collapse of #Cuba should not be seen as an isolated phenomenon; this breakdown is not only endemic, it will taint and drag down with it each and every ideological meaning that has been distorted, manipulated, and corrupted by power, which we once applauded and that has brought us to this point.
A #Government, a leader, a #FailedState that is unable to #save a #people has the duty, the moral obligation, and the #URGENT responsibility to #resign and leave the country in the hands of those who can rescue it; otherwise, it will go down in history as the executioner that finished annihilating us and exterminated us as a nation.
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