Community Services

"If Vedado is like this, how must the rest be?" Trash is piling up in heaps in the central Havana neighborhood

Authorities intervene in a critically deteriorated building in Santiago de Cuba following a social media report

Huge garbage dump next to the train tracks in Las Tunas sparks outrage among neighbors

Garbage near schools and a children's circle: a desperate plea from a neighbor in Holguín

A "tough, tough, tough" plague: new videos expose the uncontrollable trash crisis in Havana

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

A mountain of garbage blocks the train route from Havana to Guantánamo in Las Tunas

ETECSA asks not to throw litter near its poles, and Cubans respond: "Should we eat it?"

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

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

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

Report of theft in the family vault at the Guáimaro cemetery

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

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

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

Playa Ancón, in Trinidad, displays a "sea of trash" at the end of the summer season

"How long will the incompetence in Artemisa last?" A street buried under garbage outrages the neighbors

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

Garbage dump in the heart of Camagüey

Mechanical shovels destroyed garbage deposit sites, and the Matanzas area was left without collection points

Guantánamo accumulates micro and megadumps while the province remains under Epidemiological Alert

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

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

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

Full of trash: This is how La Boca beach in Camagüey looks

"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 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

Trash blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food sales stalls

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

In photos: Rivers and bay of Matanzas overflowing with garbage

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

Trillo Park, among waste and worms: residents report overflow of garbage in Centro Habana

Trash overflows in Parque Trillo 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 trash devours the work of the historian in Old Havana

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

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

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

Fire at Camagüey landfill alarms neighbors due to authorities' inaction

"Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine": one of the main access roads to Holguín looks like a war zone due to a burning dump

Burning garbage dumps turn neighborhoods in Holguín into a health trap

The Yayabo River, a symbol of Sancti Spíritus, is suffocating amid 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 garbage dump raises concern in Guantánamo: “Rats enter the houses and the stench won’t let us live”

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

Rivers turned into dumps: waste exacerbates flooding in the city of Holguín

Another landfill on the way: the accumulation of trash is increasing in front of the playground in Holguín

The streets of the revolutionaries: mountains of trash, risk of epidemics, and neglect in the heart of Centro Habana

Guantánamo resorts to manual labor and animal traction to tackle the waste crisis

Rigoberto Ferrera is searching 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

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

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

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

Residents of the Casino Deportivo organize their own garbage collection in response to the collapse of public services

"Community, please!": a garbage dump expands next to a childcare center in the heart of Vedado

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

"Holguín hurts": garbage, landfills, and neglect consume what was once the cleanest city in Cuba