Garbage in Havana

"Garbage mafias in Cuba? Testimonies point to clans, violence, and an organized business in the landfills."

What was left after "picking up" the trash in San Miguel del Padrón

Terrible discovery reported in a dump in Havana and the detention of a woman

Fidel Castro's great-nephew is spotted doing 'volunteer work' in El Vedado

"Nothing is impossible": PCC Secretary in Plaza rivals Díaz-Canel's "utopia"

"Public servants, do something": they denounce the neglect of the floating dock in Havana Bay

Old Havana can't stay clean for even two hours due to the waste management chaos

Trillo Park, amidst waste and worms: residents report garbage overflow in Central Havana

Trash overflows in Trillo Park in Central Havana, and residents are fed up: “Between the stench and the worms, where are we headed?”

Anna Bensi shows her neighborhood and quips: "The garbage will open a criminal case against me."

"Going out onto the street relaxes you... on the contrary": The disheartening portrait of a Cuban neighborhood

"This is the worst torture": Cuban mother denounces the struggle of raising her baby amid blackouts, garbage, and mosquitoes

"Every day the wear and tear is greater": Ulises Toirac on the crisis in Cuba

"What irony! With so much garbage-eater around": Ulises Toirac sparks reactions on social media

Ulises Toirac on garbage dumps in Havana: "In every neighborhood, an infection."

Yoani Sánchez denounces the pollution caused by garbage burning that the residents of Havana are experiencing

Laritza Camacho on the holidays: No transportation, trash everywhere, landslides, and people collecting water with buckets

Warning about a bedbug infestation spreading in Havana

"They are putting an end to the underground network of Old Havana," Cubans lament in response to the frequent power outages

"If Eusebio Leal were to come back to life, he would die again," lament Cubans as garbage devours the work of the historian in Old Havana

After what this Cuban did for his neighborhood, it's incredible how the neighbors repaid him: "Incredible."

"We returned to the primitive era": how a Cuban scares away mosquitoes after seven sleepless nights

The CDR monitors the blocks... but not the mountain of garbage that is burning next to its headquarters in Vedado

The collapse of Monte Street in the Cuban capital: the corner of El Cadete now smells of neglect and trash

Havana regresses by three centuries: bags filled with excrement and trash revive the unhealthiness of the colonial era

A project for waste management has been launched in the Havana neighborhood of San Isidro, just ahead of the 11J

Trash and sewage in the streets of Havana threaten the food security of Cubans

"And this is without an earthquake": Cubans facing the destroyed streets of Havana

Garbage collection on La Rampa will have a fee: 100 pesos per household and 15,000 for private entities

From architectural icon to symbol of neglect: residents report that the Focsa is falling apart amid alleged corruption

"Unique country where garbage collection is news": Cubans react to the start of the collection project in Havana

Not even Saint Jude Thaddeus can get them to pick up the trash in front of his church in Central Havana

El Cerro has the key... and also a swamp of waste in the heart of the Cuban capital

Young people in the Military Service collect trash in Havana

Lázaro and César watch over a corner in Centro Habana: neighbors pay them to prevent littering

Havana normalizes the unsanitary: food sales amid accumulated trash on the streets

The streets of the revolutionaries: mountains of garbage, risk of epidemics, and abandonment in the heart of Central Havana

Fire destroys another door of the Escolapios church in Havana

From the pot-banging to the fire: Protests intensify in Cuba

"I hope it's true": Cubans react to new waste recycling project in Havana

Mass protests in Central Havana hours before the PCC Plenary: Cauldrons, fire, and police near the Capitolio

A journalist returns from Cuba with the feeling that people are waiting for someone from outside to save them

Colombian actor shows the side not seen in Cuba's tourist postcards: "This political model has failed."

"Another achievement of the Revolution": Neptuno Street in Havana nearly blocked by trash

Rigoberto Ferrera is looking for the recipe that Cubans need the most

A mountain of garbage blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears of epidemics grow in the summer

"Let him get into one of those bags and self-export himself": Cubans to Díaz-Canel after visiting recycling facilities in Regla

Díaz-Canel wants to turn waste into "million-dollar revenues" for Cuba

With trash on every street in Cuba, Díaz-Canel tours a recycling company in Havana

Not even Saint Jude Thaddeus can handle this impossible situation: the garbage near his church in Centro Habana

The sale of trash in Cuba: "All of this is recycled and people want it."

Mountains of garbage, mosquitoes, and deaths: The New York Times reveals another side of the crisis in Cuba

Residents of the Casino Deportivo organize their own garbage collection due to the collapse of public services

The blinders of power: they denounce the disconnection of the ruling elite from the everyday crisis in Cuba

“Communal, please!”: a garbage dump is expanding next to a Child Care Center in the heart of Vedado

Drinking water is lost beneath a landfill in Havana due to a presumed break caused by heavy machinery

"The Whip of the Communals": Rigoberto Ferrera and the Art of Laughing at Cuban Reality

"Havana can't take it anymore": Cubans react to the amount of garbage in the streets

Cacerolazos in Havana: Residents of Playa and El Vedado protest against power outages

“The Capital of Waste”: another garbage fire exposes the sanitary collapse in Central Havana