Hygiene

Old Havana can’t stay clean for even two hours due to the uncontrolled waste

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

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

Anna Bensi showcases 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 were to come back to life, he would die again,” lament Cubans as garbage consumes the work of the historian in Old Havana

Cuban child upon touching the coffee maker in his home: "It's sooty 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 hospitalized: "At least I will feel a bit of comfort."

Mother of political prisoners denounces 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 next to their headquarters in Vedado

Black water, 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 looks like a war zone due to a burning garbage dump

Havana regresses three centuries: bags of excrement and garbage revive the unsanitary conditions of the colonial era

Garbage in Cuba: A whole street closed in Bayamo

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

"And this is without a earthquake having occurred": Cubans face the destroyed streets of Havana

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

Burning trash bins turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a health trap

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is drowning in garbage and the inaction of the authorities

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

Cockroach infestation reported at Harris Brothers store in Havana

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

Rivers turned into dumps: trash aggravates flooding in the city of Holguín

Another dump 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 trash, risk of epidemics, and neglect in the heart of Centro Habana

Guantánamo turns to cart pullers and animal power to tackle the waste crisis

A mountain of trash blocks an intersection in Centro Habana as fears grow about epidemics this summer

Minsap alerts about a possible dengue epidemic as trash, leaks, and power outages contribute to the proliferation of mosquitoes

"I don't recognize my neighborhood with so much neglect": Cuban shows the streets of Manzanillo

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

Not even San Judas Tadeo can handle this impossible situation: the trash near his church in Centro Habana

Alert about water quality in Camagüey: Odor and cloudy color in the liquid

Trash and sources of unsanitary 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."

Among motorcycles, garbage, and thefts: decay takes over Calle del Medio in Matanzas

"And then?": Cubans question cleanup efforts at a pediatric hospital

"Cubans Preparing for Hantavirus": Reports of Rats at the Enrique Cabrera National Hospital in Havana

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

Journalist reports a trash dump one block away from the Pediatric Hospital of Matanzas

Rigoberto Ferrera, "The Whip of the Communals," continues to denounce trash and its burning on the streets of Havana

A neighbor in Centro Habana accuses the government and state entities of "counter-revolution" after leaving a block without electricity, water, and elevator service

From playground to garbage dump: this is how Los Caballitos, a symbol of childhood in Holguín, ended up

"In Cuba, there have been difficult periods, but none have seen so much chaos, so much neglect... so much garbage," denounces a journalist from Matanzas

They describe the epidemiological scenario in Matanzas as "complex" due to an outbreak of hepatitis

Cuban in the Dominican Republic recalls things that nobody outside of Cuba can imagine

Cuban mother reports a plague of flies in Cerro: "I have a baby, and it's unbearable."

Garbage and debris are blocking the railway line in Bayamo, putting human lives at risk

A new well is being planned to alleviate the critical water situation in Matanzas

Water is a concern in Cienfuegos: aging networks and shortages test the community

Commerce in Las Tunas halts the sale of regulated toothpaste and announces tests following alarm in the population

Dumpsters are burning in Holguín: the once "cleanest city in Cuba" breathes in toxic smoke every night

"A tremendous mess": Cuban denounces sewage flooding a street with a school and kindergarten

Camagüey Provincial Hospital faces new complaints: stagnant water and garbage near the operating room