Hygiene

The Guantanamo municipality of Manuel Tames is on alert due to cases of fever and the proliferation of micro-dumps

A “hard, hard, hard” plague: new videos expose the uncontrollable waste crisis in Havana

Banks without signs, graffiti, and missing fences: vandalism wreaks havoc in Cienfuegos

Only 15% of residents in Matanzas without water benefit from new infrastructure recovered by linemen in Matanzas

The right to the city begins with a public restroom, and the authorities in Guantánamo seem to have forgotten this

Poor sanitary conditions reported in the emergency room of Orlando Pantoja Tamayo Hospital in Contramaestre

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

Filth, plague, and neglect have taken over Almacenes Ultra in Central Havana

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

This is the state of the bathrooms in the surgery ward of the provincial hospital of Camagüey

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

Videos show streets of Havana overflowing with filth: garbage engulfs the "City of Wonder."

Government acknowledges issues with waste management while warning of rising dengue cases in Isla de la Juventud

Playa Ancón, in Trinidad, shows a "sea of trash" at the close of the summer season

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

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

More than 100 days without garbage collection: a massive landfill is nearly blocking a residential area of Santa Clara

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

Amid the collapse, Matanzas promotes a pain relief service

They report that pregnant women at the hospital in Contramaestre have to carry buckets of water up the stairs due to a lack of basic services

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

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

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

Camagüeyana: "It's been two months since they last came to collect the garbage."

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

Reported: Huge dump next to a primary school in Holguín

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

Garbage 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

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

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food stalls

Old Havana can't stay clean for even two hours due to the out-of-control waste issue

Trash overflows in Parque Trillo in Central Havana, and residents are outraged: “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 jokes, "The garbage 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 touching his home coffee maker: "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'll feel a little 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 neighborhoods... but not the mountain of garbage that burns next to their headquarters in Vedado

Blackwater, trash, 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 steps back three centuries: bags filled with feces and garbage revive the unhealthy conditions of the colonial era

Trash in Cuba: A Whole Street Closed in Bayamo

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

"And that’s without an earthquake": Cubans facing the destroyed streets of Havana

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

Burning garbage dumps turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a trap for health

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is suffocating under 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

Infestation of cockroaches reported at the Harris Brothers store in Havana

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

Rivers turned into dump sites: waste worsens flooding in the city of Holguín

Another landfill on the way: the accumulation of garbage increases in front of the playground in Holguín

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

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

A mountain of garbage blocks an intersection in Central Havana as fears of epidemics rise during the summer