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The Cuban actor Luis Alberto García Novoa published a message on his Facebook profile this Thursday raising alarm about the epidemiological risk that Cuba is facing at the onset of summer, warning that the country could collapse under an epidemic of vector-borne diseases if immediate action is not taken.
In his publication, García describes the health situation of the Island with an image that leaves no room for doubt:
"I am a full-time atheist, but God forbid it should erupt among us, in this boiling cauldron seasoned with battalions of mosquitoes, sewage, and kilometers of garbage in which we are barely surviving (July and August are still to join the party), one of those epidemics, daughters, sisters, cousins, or little friends of dengue, because we are going to fall in the Cuban streets like iguanas in the face of intense cold."
The warning comes at a time when the regime itself has acknowledged the danger.
On June 12, the Deputy Minister of Public Health, Carilda Peña, warned in the program Mesa Redonda that Cuba could face a new epidemic if the factors promoting the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito are not controlled.
"If all four serotypes are circulating, it is evident that when one becomes predominant in our health landscape, we could have localized outbreaks of the disease. If we do not implement a set of actions, we could face an epidemic," declared Peña, as reported by the Minsap in its alert about a possible dengue epidemic.
On that same day, health authorities in Matanzas confirmed the first cases of dengue for the 2026 season, as well as a number of suspected cases under surveillance that they described as "not insignificant at all."
A health crisis with structural roots
What García denounces is not an isolated perception, but a reality supported by concrete data.
In Havana, only 44 out of 106 garbage collection trucks were operational in February 2026, while the city generates between 24,000 and 30,000 cubic meters of waste every day.
The intense blackouts force thousands of families to store water in containers that become breeding grounds for the transmitting mosquito.
This is compounded by the spread of hepatitis A across all provinces of the country, with particular incidence in Havana, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba, Ciego de Ávila, and Camagüey.
The immediate background is devastating: according to data from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Cuba ended 2025 with at least 81,909 cases of dengue and chikungunya and 65 fatalities associated.
The Minsap officially recognized the dengue epidemic in November 2025, months after the outbreaks had begun.
A voice that does not fall silent
This post is the latest in a series of public interventions by the actor in June 2026.
On June 10, García accused the leaders of having abandoned the people "in the darkness of the night" with a single directive: " Screw you all!"
On June 16, he was even more direct in demanding that the rulers endure the same hardships as the people: "I want to see them starving, in those guayaberas and sweat-drenched uniforms, unable to sleep, without medicine, doing everything on foot, lacking money to solve anything. Suffering just like those on the bottom."
In that same text, García rejected the notion that the embargo is the sole responsible party for the crisis: "Enough already of wielding the thesis that it has been, is, and will always be the U.S. blockade/embargo as THE ONLY GUILTY PARTY in this hell we are burning in."
With July and August still ahead—months of highest heat, humidity, and reproduction of Aedes aegypti— the actor's warning summarizes what official data confirms, but the regime refuses to accept as its own responsibility: Cuba enters the most dangerous summer in recent years without garbage collection, without guaranteed drinking water, and without electricity.
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