Garbage in Havana

Videos show the streets of Havana overflowing with filth: garbage is swallowing up the “Marvelous City.”

Containers and Chinese trucks are being prepared for solid waste collection in Havana: "It's not the definitive solution."

Los Sitios, another neighborhood in Havana trapped between garbage and neglect

Cuban school surrounded by a garbage dump contradicts the regime's promises for the new school year

Cuban poet: "We have become a country of garbage."

"‘And what about Barrio Encendido?’: Cubans mock the new campaign from the Havana government"

Waste collection project with electric tricycles in Havana fails: "It has not been realized."

“They have turned this country into a tremendous mess”: video shows the surroundings of Cuatro Caminos flooded with putrid water

"I opened a new micro and small enterprise": Cuban jokes about the trash accumulated on the street

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

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

Terrible discovery reported in a dumpster in Havana and the arrest of a woman

Fidel Castro's grandnephew is spotted doing 'volunteer work' in El Vedado

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

“Public servants, do something”: abandonment of the floating dock in Havana Bay reported

Old Havana cannot stay clean for even two hours due to the mismanagement of waste

Trillo Park, among waste and worms: residents report garbage overflow in Centro Habana

Trash overflows the Trillo Park in Central Havana, and residents erupt: “With the stink and the worms, where are we going to end up?”

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

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

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

"Each day the wear and tear grows greater": Ulises Toirac on the crisis in Cuba

"What irony! With so many garbage-eaters 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 from trash burning that the residents of Havana suffer

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

Warning about a bedbug infestation spreading in Havana

"They are putting an end to the underground network in Old Havana," Cubans denounce amid frequent power outages

"If Eusebio Leal comes back to life, he will 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 paid him back: "Incredible."

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

The CDR monitor the blocks... but not the mountain of garbage burning next to their 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 three centuries: bags of excrement and trash revive the unhealthiness of the colonial era

Launch of waste management project in the Havana neighborhood of San Isidro, on the eve of 11J

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

"And that's without a earthquake having occurred": Cubans face the destroyed streets of Havana

Trash collection on La Rampa will have a fee: 100 pesos per household and 15,000 for businesses

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

"Only country where collecting trash is news": Cubans react to the start of a collection project in Havana

Even Saint Jude Thaddeus can't 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 are collecting trash in Havana

Lázaro and César watch over a corner in Centro Habana: neighbors pay them to prevent trash from being thrown

Havana normalizes the unsanitary: food sold amidst accumulated garbage in the streets

The streets of the revolutionaries: mountains of trash, risk of epidemics, and neglect in the heart of Central Havana

Fire destroys another door of the Escolapios church in Havana

From the pot-banging to the fire: Protests escalate in intensity in Cuba

"Hopefully it's true": Cubans react to a new waste recycling project in Havana

Mass protests in Centro Habana hours before the PCC Plenary: Cauldrons, fire, and police near the Capitol

Journalist returns from Cuba with the feeling that people are hoping someone from outside will save them

Colombian actor shows the side that doesn't appear 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 trash blocks an intersection in Central Havana as fears of summer epidemics rise

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

Díaz-Canel wants to turn waste into "millions in revenue" for Cuba

With trash in all the streets of Cuba, Díaz-Canel visits a recycling plant in Havana

Not even Saint Jude Thaddeus can handle this impossible cause: the trash near his church in Central Havana

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