Hygiene

More than 100 days without garbage collection: a huge landfill nearly blocks a residential area of Santa Clara

The family books a night at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba and discovers an unexpected guest in their room

In the midst of the collapse, Matanzas promotes a pain management service

It is reported that pregnant women at the Contramaestre hospital have to carry buckets of water upstairs due to a lack of basic services

Mechanical shovels destroyed garbage depots, leaving the Matanzas area without collection points

Guantánamo accumulates micro and mega dumps while the province remains on Epidemiological Alert

Cubans demand a solution in Cárdenas: "Trash is piling up just a few meters from the house."

Camagüeyana: "It has been two months since they last came to collect the trash."

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

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

"To embarrass Díaz-Canel": Cuban woman shows the food from a public hospital in Italy

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

From public service to private business: a small and medium-sized enterprise will charge 100 CUP for garbage collection in Isla de la Juventud

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

Old Havana cannot stay clean for even two hours in the face of waste mismanagement

Garbage overflows in Trillo Park in Centro Habana and residents are fed up: “Between the stench and the worms, where are we going to end up?”

Nurse sets a chair on fire to kill bedbugs in a hospital in Santiago de Cuba

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

What a tourist did with a fork on a Carnival cruise will leave you speechless

“If Eusebio Leal comes back to life, he’ll die again,” lament Cubans as garbage consumes the work of the historian in Old Havana

Cuban boy touching the coffee maker in his home: "It's dirty because communism leads to this."

Guantánamo reports 23 suspected cases of dengue, and two municipalities remain under epidemiological alert

A Cuban woman cleans the hospital bathroom where her daughter is admitted: "At least I will feel a little bit of comfort."

Mother of political prisoners claims that the Quivicán prison has no water, and her sick son is in danger

Ice Cream in an Ashtray: The New Image of the Collapse of Gastronomy in Cuba

The CDR monitor the blocks... but not the mountain of garbage that burns beside their headquarters in Vedado

Black waters, garbage, and neglect: this is how the La Marina neighborhood in Matanzas survives

“Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine”: one of the main access roads to Holguín resembles a war zone due to a burning garbage dump

Havana reverts three centuries: bags filled with excrement and garbage revive the unsanitary conditions of the colonial era

Trash in Cuba: A whole street closed in Bayamo

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

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

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

Burning garbage dumps turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a health trap

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is suffocating under garbage and the inaction of the authorities

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

A cockroach infestation has been reported at the Harris Brothers store in Havana

Havana normalizes the unhealthy: food sales amidst accumulated garbage in the streets

Rivers turned into dumps: garbage worsens flooding in the city of Holguín

Another landfill on the way: the accumulation of garbage is growing in front of the children's park in Holguín

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

Guantánamo is turning to cart drivers and animal traction to tackle the waste crisis

A mountain of trash blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears of epidemics rise in the summer

Minsap warns of a possible dengue epidemic as garbage, leaks, and power outages contribute to the proliferation of mosquitoes

"I do not recognize my neighborhood with so much neglect": Cuban shows the streets of Manzanillo

A month without garbage collection in Cienfuegos while the authorities discuss preventing hepatitis

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

Warnings about water quality in Camagüey: Foul odor and cloudy appearance in the liquid

Trash and sources of unhealthy conditions are gaining ground in the “Cradle of Cuban nationality.”

The Pearl of the South is sinking in garbage: residents of Cienfuegos report a neighborhood turned into a dump

Outrage over the treatment of the remains of José Martí's son during an exhumation at the Colón Cemetery

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

“Communal, please!”: a garbage dump expands next to a Children's Circle in the heart of Vedado

“Holguín hurts”: trash, landfills, and neglect consume what was once the cleanest city in Cuba

Authorities in Camagüey admit the sale of expired toothpaste: "It can be used without risks."

Amid motorcycles, trash, and thefts: decay takes hold of Calle del Medio in Matanzas

"And then?": Cubans question cleaning day at a pediatric hospital

"Cubans preparing for hantavirus": Rats reported at the Enrique Cabrera National Hospital in Havana

The streets of the revolutionaries remain buried in garbage: viral video captures the neglect in a central area of Havana