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A wall of garbage at the foot of a crumbling building: that's how filthy Havana's Belascoaín Street is

Until when? Residents report accumulated garbage next to residential buildings in Holguín

Giant garbage dump reported in Luyanó: More than four months without being collected

A garbage dump on the tracks forces the Havana-Guantánamo train to stop in Las Tunas

Cuban three-time Olympic champion Félix Savón is seen rummaging through a trash heap for food, and Limay Blanco comes to his aid

Servicios Comunales in Cienfuegos is operating with only 25% of the necessary workforce

Cubans complain about dumpsters in Holguín: "Communals are not interested."

They denounce a garbage dump in Matanzas: "How far are we going to go?"

Zanja, another street in Havana suffocated by garbage

Las Tunas marked its 230th anniversary with trash ruling its streets

The garbage dump blocks the corner of downtown Matanzas: "Are our leaders blind?"

"Havana is a corpse in the sun": litter and neglect surround the Zanja funeral home

"It's sad to see this in Cuba with so many illnesses": people rummaging through the trash in Havana

"If Vedado is like this, how is the rest?" Trash piles up in heaps in the central Havana neighborhood

An enormous dump next to the train tracks in Las Tunas is causing outrage among residents

Garbage next to schools and a children's circle: neighbor makes a desperate plea in Holguín

A "hard, hard, hard" plague: new videos expose the uncontrollable trash crisis in Havana

A mountain of garbage blocks the passage of the Habana-Guantánamo train in Las Tunas

ETECSA asks not to throw trash next to its poles, and Cubans respond: "Should we eat it?"

Ana Hurtado is surprised by the garbage in El Vedado, a reality that Cubans have been denouncing for years

A street in Havana blocked by the accumulation of garbage: "This is how Cuba is."

The market of Los Chinos in Holguín was cleared to clean the area, but trash surrounds the new kiosks where food is sold

A private small and medium-sized enterprise will manage the waste in the Historic Center of Camagüey due to the crisis in municipal services

Fire at a landfill destroys side door of San Judas Tadeo Parish in Central Havana due to governmental neglect

A garbage dump catches fire in Santa Marta, Matanzas

More than 10 days without garbage collection, and the head of the PCC in Ciego de Ávila blames the embargo

Videos show the streets of Havana overflowing with filth: trash is swallowing the "City of Marvels."

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

Ciego de Ávila among garbage dumps: "What a beautiful country we have on social media."

Playa Ancón, in Trinidad, displays a "sea of trash" at the end of the summer season

"How long will the incompetence in Artemisa last?" A street buried under garbage outrages the residents

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

Authorities are investigating the discovery of two fetuses among the trash in Central Havana

Garbage dump in the heart of Camagüey

More than 100 days without garbage collection: a huge dump is nearly blocking a residential area in Santa Clara

Mechanical shovels destroyed landfill sites, leaving the Matanzas area without any collection points

Guantánamo accumulates micro and mega landfills while the province remains under Epidemiological Alert

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

Cubans seek a solution in Cárdenas: "The garbage piles up just a few meters from the house."

The project for trash collection using electric tricycles in Havana has failed: "It has not been realized."

Firefighters extinguish a fire in an open area of Ampliación de Terrazas, Santiago de Cuba

"They have turned this country into a tremendous mess": a video shows the Cuatro Caminos area flooded with putrid water

Outrage on social media: Cuban reports garbage burning poisoning 176 families

They report a huge garbage dump next to a primary school in Holguín

"I opened a new SME": Cuban jokes about the garbage piled up on the street

Laritza Camacho wants a business of ideas in her neighborhood: "Together, let's remove the garbage that stinks and the one that organizes and deceives."

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

From public service to private business: a small or medium-sized enterprise will charge 100 CUP to collect trash in Isla de la Juventud

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

Waste takes over Las Tunas and forces the search for solutions in the private sector

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food sales stalls

Early morning chaos in Santiago de Cuba: Thefts, police chases, and a fire

In photos: Rivers and bay of Matanzas overflowing with trash

Havana Old Town can't stay clean for even two hours in the face of waste mismanagement

Trash overflows in Trillo Park in Centro Habana and residents are outraged: “Between the stench and the worms, where are we headed?”

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

Ulises Toirac on trash dumps in Havana: "in every neighborhood, an infection"

Warnings about a bedbug infestation spreading in Havana

“If Eusebio Leal were to resurrect, he would die again,” lament Cuban citizens as garbage engulfs the work of the historian in Old Havana

A Cuban shows the garbage dump at the corner of her house: "My God, that's why there are so many diseases and so many issues."