The newspaper El País from Spain featured a comprehensive report on its front page this Thursday titled "The Sinking of Cuba: We Are an Altar of Sacrifices", which describes the unprecedented deterioration of daily life on the island, marked by economic collapse, widespread scarcity, and political repression.
The text, signed by journalists Sergio Murguía, David Marcial Pérez, and Carla Gloria Colomé, depicts a nation in ruins where “the pillars of Castroism —healthcare, education, the fight against poverty, and security— are crumbling one after another.”
According to the newspaper, "only the repressive apparatus of the State seems to remain intact," he noted.
The chronicles, crafted from Havana, Mexico, and Miami, illustrate the extreme degradation of essential services, hospitals lacking medication, schools that are half-empty, and neighborhoods where garbage piles up for weeks.
"Just a few streets from the Plaza de la Revolución, a doctor treats patients in a dusty location and warns that each sick person must bring their own syringe and medications," describes one of the passages about the collapse of the healthcare system in the report.
The publication emphasizes that the loss of collective hope has become the dominant characteristic of a society that survives amid misery and emigration.
The report from El País appears just days after another article titled “Cuba: the flip side of the plot”, authored by Cuban historian Rafael Rojas, who warns that the current collapse of the island “was foreseen” and can no longer be explained merely as a result of the U.S. embargo.
“None of the historical evidence will convince those who continue to see Cuba as a helpless victim of the United States,” Rojas wrote.
Both studies agree that the Havana regime is going through its worst moment since the so-called Special Period of the 1990s, but now without the political or economic cushion that Moscow or Caracas previously provided. "Today, neither Russia nor Venezuela can rescue Cuba," the authors note.
The Country also highlights the impact of the recent measures taken by President Donald Trump, which tightened sanctions against the military and business elite of the regime, cut trade licenses, and froze assets abroad. “Trump's latest blows have suffocated a system that was already operating on inertia,” the newspaper states.
The Spanish media recalls that the United States continues to provide humanitarian aid to the population, but has shut down the financial and logistical channels that allowed the Castro regime to divert international funds for repression.
“While the people survive with the bare minimum, the generals and their families continue to live in abundance,” the report states.
The chronicles of El País reflect a growing consensus both inside and outside the island: the structural crisis of the Cuban model has no solution within the system.
The propaganda has lost its effectiveness, repression no longer contains the discontent, and emigration has become the only possible dream, the text notes.
According to the report, thousands of Cubans continue to attempt to leave the island despite the closure of routes and the increase in migration restrictions.
The sinking of Cuba is no longer just economic; it is also moral and human. The population lives between resignation and despair, while the authorities insist on blaming the external enemy, it concludes.
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