A street in Bayamo has been completely blocked by piles of accumulated garbage, as captured in a video posted on Facebook by the user Barbara Pavón, which has garnered nearly 22,000 views.
In the footage recorded from a moving car, it can be seen how waste has completely taken over the road, obstructing normal passage, a reflection of the sanitary collapse occurring in the capital of Granma.
In the video, a woman can be heard expressing her outrage: "Look, a closed road, look at that... do you think that's fair, that people are so dirty?"
But another one clarifies, "Because they have nowhere to throw the trash if there’s no truck."
Although Pavon initially points to the behavior of the neighbors, his own words reveal the real underlying issue: the complete absence of waste collection services. Without fuel, without operational trucks, and without solutions from the regime, residents have nowhere to dispose of their waste, and the streets become the only available dump.
The post includes a text summarizing the experience of the person who filmed the scene: "I definitely would have liked to post two having a party in nice places, but I ended up experiencing the most expensive and worst trip of my life, so this is what it is."
Bayamo, with around 200,000 inhabitants, was for decades considered one of the cleanest cities in Cuba. Today, that reputation is just a memory.
Health hazards are on the rise with active garbage fires in the heart of the urban area. The accumulation of waste has encouraged the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and contributed to outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya in the region.
On April 25, garbage blocked more than half of a railway crossing on the Bayamo-Havana line, endangering human lives.
The chronic shortage of diesel, exacerbated by the collapse of Venezuelan supply and the suspension of Mexican shipments, has halted collection trucks across the country.
In Havana, only 44 out of 106 trucks are in operation, leaving up to 23,814 cubic meters of waste uncollected each day.
Due to the inability to manage waste, the regime authorized open-air garbage burning in May, releasing toxic compounds over the population.
The Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz acknowledged in December 2025 that the government has not been able to resolve the crisis, with more than half of the popular councils in Havana affected.
While the regime admits its failure without offering real solutions, it is the Cubans who pay the price: impassable streets, polluted air, and diseases that spread uncontrollably.
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