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"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

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

The benches in Plaza de Marte in Santiago de Cuba are being restored, but the question is how long they will last

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food vendors

"Nothing is impossible": PCC Secretary in Plaza competes with Díaz-Canel's "utopia"

In photos: Rivers and bay of Matanzas overflowing with trash

Old Havana can't stay clean for even two hours due to the chaos of waste management

Trillo Park, among waste and worms: residents report overflowing garbage in Central Havana

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

"If Eusebio Leal were to come back to life, he would die again," lament Cubans as the garbage consumes the work of the historian in Old Havana

The CDR monitors the blocks... but not the pile of garbage that burns next to its headquarters in Vedado

Black waters, trash, and abandonment: this is how the neighborhood of La Marina in Matanzas survives

The collapse of Monte Street in the Cuban capital: the corner of El Cadete now smells of neglect and trash

Fire in Camagüey landfill alarms neighbors due to the inaction of the authorities

“Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine”: one of the main access routes to Holguín looks like a war zone due to a burning rubbish dump

Burning trash piles 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

Enormous dump causes concern in Guantánamo: "Rats enter the houses and the stench makes it impossible for us to live"

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

Rivers turned into dumps: waste exacerbates 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 trash, risk of epidemics, and neglect in the heart of Central Havana

Guantánamo turns to porters and animal traction to tackle the waste crisis

Rigoberto Ferrera is looking for the recipe that Cubans need the most

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

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

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

Garbage and unsanitary conditions are gaining ground in the "Cradle of Cuban nationality."

Catholic Church of Santiago de Cuba issues a call to the government: "The situation has become unsustainable."

Neighbors of the Casino Deportivo organize their own trash collection in response to the collapse of public services

"Public space, please!": a landfill expands next to a preschool in the heart of Vedado

Drinking water is being lost under a landfill in Havana following a reported break caused by heavy machinery

"Holguín Hurts": trash, landfills, and neglect consume what was once Cuba's cleanest city

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

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

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

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

Resident in Central Havana accuses the government and state entities of "counter-revolution" after leaving a block without electricity, water, and elevator

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

Garbage trucks and heavy machinery pose a threat to the Albear canal and the water supply for hundreds of thousands of residents in Havana

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

Garbage and debris block railway lines in Bayamo, putting human lives at risk

"Signatures are being collected" in Havana, but to pick up the trash, says Rigoberto Ferrera

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

"Havana smells of burning garbage": the stark portrait of the "City of Wonders"

More than 10 days without water in La Lisa after a pipe break: "And nobody cares"

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

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

Trash bin burned 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 shortage

Creative resistance or revolutionary regression? Funeral carriage improvised in Bayamo due to lack of fuel

Manuel Marrero calls on Cubans to pick up the trash this weekend: "We are going to keep fighting."

Announcement of a foreign investment project for garbage collection amid the health chaos in Havana

A Cuban woman shares what struck her the most about Cuba upon returning after two years away: "I couldn't believe it."

ETECSA warns about garbage burning that damages telecommunications as waste overflows in Havana

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

Who collects the garbage in Havana?