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"We owe a debt to the city": Authorities admit to a collapse in garbage collection in Matanzas

In Matanzas, they do not collect garbage, but they are joining the Cuba Recicla campaign

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

"They took my father's planter": warnings about looting in the Pinar cemetery

A resident 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 junkyard: this is how Los Caballitos, a symbol of childhood in Holguín, ended up

Garbage trucks and heavy machinery are endangering the Albear canal and the water supply for hundreds of thousands of Havana residents

Residents of Santiago de Cuba report a bedbug infestation and a micro-dump in the Sorribe neighborhood

Trash and debris block railway line in Bayamo, putting human lives at risk

"Signatures are being gathered" in Havana, but to collect the garbage, says Rigoberto Ferrera

Trash cans are burning in Holguín: the once "cleanest city in Cuba" inhales toxic smoke every night

"Havana smells of burnt garbage": the stark portrait of the "Wonder City"

More than 10 days without water in La Lisa after pipe break: "And no one cares"

"They are not graves, they are rubble": Abandonment of human remains in the Colón Cemetery, Camila Acosta reports

Will Holguín become the cleanest city again? Residents demand systematic garbage collection

Trash can set on fire near the polyclinic in Guanabacoa amid the collapse of waste collection in Havana

Black water and flooding affect homes in Vista Hermosa, Santiago de Cuba

The Cuban government insists on relocating workers due to the energy crisis and fuel shortages

Creative resistance or revolutionary regression? Improvisation of a hearse in Bayamo due to fuel shortages

Manuel Marrero asks Cubans to take out the trash this weekend: "We are going to keep fighting."

An investment project for waste collection has been announced amid the health chaos in Havana

A Cuban woman shares what surprised her most about Cuba upon returning after two years away: “I couldn't believe it.”

ETCADORES warns about trash burning that damages telecommunications as waste overflows in Havana

Fire in the basement of the Focsa building in Havana mobilizes firefighters

Who collects the trash in Havana?

Cuba on the Edge: a municipality starts making handcrafted coffins due to a shortage of caskets in the country

Holguín: The Other Death After Death

"Another achievement of the government": The ruling party admits that Las Tunas has turned into a garbage dump, and social media spares no one

Neighbors report: Authorities order dumping of garbage in front of pre-university school in Havana

Cuban regime acknowledges the collapse of the capital: Transportation, housing, water, and public health in crisis

A lack of fuel is plunging Havana even deeper into mountains of garbage

Is the street for the revolutionaries? Trash and sewage have taken over those of Jesús María, Old Havana

Works on the crematorium in Sancti Spíritus announced to begin after years of delays

15 electric vehicles added to funeral services in Havana

Only after a complaint from the parish priest, authorities removed trash in front of the Santísima Trinidad church in Santiago de Cuba

A recurring danger: neighbors tired of waiting improvise a solution for an open manhole in Santiago de Cuba

Catholic Church in Santiago de Cuba denounces neglect and dirt in front of the house of God

Governor promotes successful management; residents question where the “progress” is in a city that is destroyed and has collapsed services

Another coffin falls from a hearse in Cuba: the funeral collapse leaves corpses in the street

Havana is accumulating trash, and the government admits it does not know how much is being generated

Workers from Minrex are being assigned to fumigate in Plaza de la Revolución

Viral outbreak leaves one doctor dead and a sick building in the heart of Santiago de Cuba

Trash in front of the cemetery: neglect in Guantánamo no longer even respects the dead at San Rafael Cemetery

Old Havana forces residents to take their trash directly to the truck: doubts, complaints, and mockery about the new "experience."

Communal services are justified by the state of the Camagüey cemetery, but the delayed response does not erase the neglect

From a clean city to a hotspot for infection: garbage, mosquitoes, and diseases are transforming the face of Holguín

"We live among garbage and diseases": mountains of waste suffocate Havana amidst a health crisis

Residents block street in Santiago de Cuba with trash

Syringes are found in a park in Havana, and the question is inevitable: what were they doing there?

A country collapsed by garbage: Díaz-Canel's failure in the face of the health crisis in Cuba

Díaz-Canel after sweeping leaves at the Palace: “There are people who believe that others have to solve their problems.”

Díaz-Canel calls for order in Havana, and Cubans respond: "Abandon power."

From minimizing dirt to sweeping it away: Johana Tablada joins the cleanup of trash in Havana

Las Tunas: leaders blame citizens and private businesses for the deterioration of hygiene

Authorities in Matanzas promise cleanup as the health crisis worsens

CITMA Minister acknowledges crisis: “Trash is scattered all over Havana”

Just a few meters from Varadero, Santa Marta is sinking in garbage and disease

Families lose roofs and crops due to extreme phenomenon in Maisí: What happened?

The government justifies the lack of garbage containers in Havana: “They are being used to make clothesline sticks.”

Officialist journalist on the garbage in Havana: there is a rampant institutional indifference