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And the sad thing, lots of commies symphatizers will said the classic "but...but...that wasn't real communism" excuse.
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Understated ongoing process- literal entropy as the system degrades:
No oil from Venezuela, no money from China because the Cubans can't pay them back, tourist facilities aging, cigar industry being poached by other countries- what does the future hold?
I would imagine that a significant part of the recent emigrant population are young degree-holders, and largely of white descent- the only ones that could have saved the country (but then again, they haven't so far).
A tragedy- turns out that the dilapidated pre-Castro buildings that photographers love for their elegant decay can only stay dilapidated for so long until they literally crumble into dust from dry rot, or are knocked over by hurricanes.
No oil from Venezuela, no money from China because the Cubans can't pay them back, tourist facilities aging, cigar industry being poached by other countries- what does the future hold?
I would imagine that a significant part of the recent emigrant population are young degree-holders, and largely of white descent- the only ones that could have saved the country (but then again, they haven't so far).
A tragedy- turns out that the dilapidated pre-Castro buildings that photographers love for their elegant decay can only stay dilapidated for so long until they literally crumble into dust from dry rot, or are knocked over by hurricanes.
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No where near as bad as the photos of inside hospitals for the native Cubans fifteen or sixteen years ago. When the American communists democrats hailing the quality of socialist medical care in Europe and other socialist shitholes including Cuba.
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Oh fuck it's gotten way worse since 2014.
Yeah, the only hospitals there that aren't ROUGH are for foreigners and government/military higher ups
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I live at the end of a major north/south drag through my rural county. There is a T intersection with a stop sign, not on my property but near it. Near enough that my property, the cow field across the street and the adjacent parcels are used as dumpsters by fucking niggers. Of the Black and White variety.
Every month without fail me and the fam go out and we clean up the shit dropped by the niggers. Of the White and Black variety. Its usually just beer cans, take out containers and gas station hooch wine bottles. Occasional winners though have included Ostomy Bags, Heroin Needles and Infusion bags complete with hoses.
We are not paid for doing this. We just do it because we want to live in a clean area where people drive by and the first thing they see is not some niggers slam can of Mickeys and an ostomy bag. In an ideal society, I would not have to share space with niggers. Of the White or Black variety. Alas, even in Rural America, Niggers are ubiquitous. But I clean up after them. That is my burden as a civilized human being.
What we are seeing here is what happens when Niggers take over completely and people like me say "fuck it", and either leave or just not bother cleaning up after the niggers anymore.
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I looked at your post a few months ago and thought “hmmm all those puddles and trash piles don’t look sanitary” and sure enough I saw this article today
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba is fighting a wave of mosquito-borne illnesses including dengue and chikungunya virus that have swept the island in recent weeks, affecting nearly one-third of the population and sickening swaths of workers, the country's top epidimiologist said late on Wednesday.
Dengue fever has long plagued Cuba but has grown worse as an economic crisis hampers the government's ability to fumigate, clean roadside trash and patch leaky pipes. Chikungunya, once rare on the island, has also spread quickly in recent months.
ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION. Wow.
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All you can do is laugh. The island is run by literal retards.
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Laugh or cry when we saw then Cuban life under Batista wasn't all that bad. Cuba could be nicknamed "Idiocracy" as a nod to that movie.
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Liberals need to talk to a Cuban-American. They're all staunchly anti-communist because they've directly seen what it does to their country. Plus, don't liberals always go on about listening to minorities? Why don't they listen to the latinx voices of Cuban-Americans?
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Well their explanation is clearly they where exploitative bourgeoises who had their stolen wealth confiscated by the Castro Regime, even if the Cubano in question left decades after the rise of the Castro regime and his murder and expropriation of the wealth of his enemies.
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Cuba is a pathetic little island nations like all the rest of the Caribbean islands except puerto rico which is the worst territory of the USA.
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The Liberals also love to blame the CIA and Mossad for Cuba being a Failed State, and not Cuba's dogshit policies.
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And they said that old tired line: "but...but that wasn't real communism".
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It's the embargo broooo!!!! It's because of the embargo that the cuban government makes it fucking impossible for citizens to start a business and try making money on their own!!!!!!!!! It's the embargo that prevented Cuba from setting up a robust economy despite having been spoonfed trillions by the USSR!!!!!!!!!
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The thing that I always pointed out is Cuba had trade with pretty much everyone else on the planet besides the US. England, Canada, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany, China, Australia, the Soviet Union, then Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, everyone else, but it was still a shithole. Why was it still a shithole when it could trade with everyone else? Why was it the US responsibility to make sure Cuba wasn't a shithole? They didn't want what we had to offer in the form of capitalism, remember? I realize all Cuba had in return was cigars and child sex tours, but even so, we weren't obligated to trade with them any more than they were obligated to trade with us. And if Havana had it right, like so many liberals suggested, why were people risking their lives in boats made out of old cars to get our of Cuba?
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Also remember despite the embargo Cuba had no problem sending tens of thousands of troops to fight in Africa in the 70s
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"American imperialism" would have saved them from this fate.
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A&N has a thread on the sanitation crisis
Mercedes Interian is unable to hold a glass of water. If she tried, it would fall to the floor. The fever and vomiting are over, the diarrhea and headaches gone. Now that she is out of danger, what Mercedes fears most is that she will be forever stooped. Once a strong 57-year-old woman, these days she cannot take a step without leaning on a broomstick. “We are a hunchbacked people, scratching around for something to eat,” she says, her voice choking due to breathing difficulties as she lies on the sofa of her house in El Cerro, in Havana. “Nobody is okay here, this thing numbs your fingers, ankles, knees... We are an army of zombies.”
Cuba today is indeed a country of sick citizens who do not know exactly what they are suffering from. All they know is that they are being infected by “the virus” – a sinister ghost that has drifted across the entire island, wiping out its inhabitants. First come the high fevers, then red spots develop, or else peeling skin. Vomiting, diarrhea and headaches are inevitable. The hands and knees swell. Victims can barely stand on their feet, and there are those who have not walked again even after the worst is over. A limp indicates a virus survivor. Citizens who drag their legs or complain about achy joints have likely also been hit. According to Maidelys Solano, 38, who was ill at home in Bayamo along with her two children, her father and nephews, every morning in every Cuban neighborhood, people are saying, “It hurts here, it hurts there, today I am a little better, or I could not get out of bed. That’s how all the neighbors are, it’s what they repeat daily.”
Almost all families in Cuba have had someone sick at home due to the country’s epidemiological crisis. The disease is in fact a combination of several mosquito-borne viruses, a model of “combined arboviruses” that includes dengue, Oropouche and chikungunya, as well as other respiratory viruses such as H1N influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and Covid-19. According to figures published by the Ministry of Public Health, 5,717 new cases of chikungunya were reported in the last week, bringing the number of patients suffering from it to 38,938. As for dengue, the ministry said the disease remains active in the country’s 14 provinces and 113 municipalities.
An alarming 33 deaths were reported at the beginning of the week which the government was forced to recognize, including 21 minors – the demographic most affected by these arboviruses along with the elderly. “There are many one-month-old children who have died, and also those between two and four years of age, as well as other young people, because the vomiting and diarrhea dehydrates them and they arrive at the hospital already in a state of collapse,” a worker at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology of El Vedado told El PAÍS on condition of anonymity.
Cuban officials, who are always reluctant to acknowledge any catastrophe, have been refusing to accept that there is a health crisis, insisting that these are common diseases for the islanders, accustomed to the summer heat and torrential tropical downpours. “They are neither new, nor are they rare or unknown,” Public Health Minister José Ángel Portal Miranda said in October. He then tried to dismiss speculation arising from the countless reports of deaths: “No one can hide an epidemic or the dead,” he claimed.
While the minister was expressing this view, Cubans in the province of Matanzas were complaining about the high rate of infections without knowing exactly what they were dealing with. Now, with hospitals and morgues overflowing, it is difficult for the ministry to ignore the evidence, though many Cubans maintain that the number of the ill and the dead is far higher than the state is willing to acknowledge.
Dr. Justo Benitez examines Luisa Suarez at her home on November 18.Norlys Perez (REUTERS)
The government has managed to disguise the figures by issuing death certificates that fail to mention arboviruses. “The doctors say that they died of a heart attack, anything but the virus,” says the worker at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology. In Solano’s neighborhood in the east of the country, several people have died in recent weeks. She says that in medical centers they put the deaths down to underlying conditions such as diabetes, pneumonia or hypertension. “But in my town, there are several people who have died from respiratory arrest or dehydration,” she says.
On October 18, Alexander Hernández’s 81-year-old mother felt ill and went to bed to rest. She was completely doubled over. Shortly after, she was taken to hospital and the doctor suspected a case of chikungunya. After a week, she experienced alterations in her diabetes and blood pressure and was suffering tachycardia. “The doctor saw her twice and checked her vital signs,” says the son. A few days later, they said everything was under control, and that she could return home. On November 5 she died. Hernández asked for an autopsy, but the doctor resisted. “He said no, and I didn’t insist because there was no transportation. He practically convinced me that it would be pointless.” His mother’s death certificate states that hers was a natural death.
Finally, the Cuban government has been left with no choice but to recognize the “national epidemiological situation” that has Cubans in a state of panic. The outlook is so critical that some have appealed to the international community not to let their so-called diseased ship sink with its millions of people on board. While state officials downplay the matter, insisting that it is not an outbreak exclusive to Cuba, and that cases are being reported in Brazil and Colombia, the truth is that the general shortages and state of collapse in Cuba have severely undermined the authorities’ ability to control the disease.
Mercedes Interian says that she is using medicinal plants to self-medicate, because of the absence of prescription drugs in a country that suffers a 70% deficit of medication supplies. She boils water and adds oregano leaves, a clove of garlic, and four cloves – a concoction she drinks in the mornings and evenings. “The truth is we don’t know how to fight it,” she says. “They send you home to rest. We are unprotected in every way. We don’t even know what we really have.”
What worries Cubans most is the lack of proper diagnostic procedures in health institutions that can tell them what type of virus they are suffering from. “For chikungunya, Oropouche or sika there are no diagnostic reagents, only at health institutes in Havana, including the IPK. The doctors write down Non-Specific Febrile Syndrome,” says a nurse from a clinic in Matanzas who prefers to remain anonymous. “To determine if it is dengue, the Immunoglobulin M [IgM] test needs to be run, which tells you the strain. It is not a lie to say that we are dying.”
Solano says that, once you go to hospital, no one tells you what type of disease you have. “If you start to swell, they tell you it’s chikungunya, if not, it’s dengue. Almost everyone has swelling, so most of them have chikungunya. You don’t hear a doctor giving a specific diagnosis. On the certificates they say that you have a virus – always trying to mask the reality we live in,” she says.
EL PAÍS’ source at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology says that many times the results of IgM tests never arrive. “It was reported that they were discarding the samples a lot of the time because there were no reagents to process them, and the patients were given a negative result. There is no such thing as an accurate diagnosis. From the symptoms, it is known that it is an arbovirus.”
Right now, Yudinela Castro Pérez has a scar left by almost 20 stitches that furrows her belly. For the doctors, everything was fine and the symptoms were “normal.” First there was the usual fever, pain, swelling and stiffness. “They told me that I was not the only one going through that,” says the 44-year-old. Then she ate a taro dish and her abdomen swelled to such a degree that she was rushed from her home in Arroyo Naranjo to the Julio Trigo hospital. “They did tests that supposedly came back negative,” she said. Subsequently, she learned that the virus – she’s not sure which – had inflamed her intestine and she had perforations due to silent peritonitis. She has had to buy her own antibiotics and painkillers on the black market, when available.
People search through garbage in the streets of Havana, December 3.Ramon Espinosa (AP)
Several Cubans interviewed by EL PAÍS are concerned that the dearth of good food is damaging their chances of recovery. A nutritional guide to which EL PAÍS had access, circulated by the Pedro Kourí Institute (IPK), reports that, among other things, chikungunya consumes iron reserves, decreases albumin and other proteins, and raises C-reactive protein, all factors that weaken the immune system. According to IPK, a prestigious research center for infectious disease, it is vital to eat eggs, yogurt, whey, fish such as salmon, tuna or sardines, vegetables, nuts and certain grains. Most of these products are inaccessible to most Cubans. “Cubans’ diet nowadays consists of picadillo and rice, and once in a long while a dish made from roots, so it’s impossible,” says Mercedes Interian. “Here, you might not eat any protein in the whole year – only some people can – and without a good diet, the impact of the virus is more virulent.”
The reasons why Cuba became a hotbed of mosquitoes and disease overnight is what many today are trying to figure out. The authorities have come up with the fact that Cuba has a “virgin” population in the face of a virus such as chikungunya, which was discovered on the island for the first time in 2014. They have also attributed the causes to the months of heat and rain that create favorable conditions for the mosquito. Although the country has mobilized forces at the last minute for garbage collection, the fact is the garbage got out of hand due to a lack of government action. And large garbage dumps have fostered a proliferation of mosquito infestations. With daily blackouts, Cuba lacks the fuel to guarantee fumigation. Meanwhile, insecticides are scarce and the lack of watermeans even minimum hygiene is difficult to attain. The infestation rate, which has become practically uncontrollable, stands at a high risk 0.89%.
Dr. Geanela Cruz Ávila, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Holguín, told Cuba’s state-controlled news outlet ¡Ahora! that if they had failed in anything, it was in prevention. “In vector-borne diseases, the focus must be on the vector. Without a mosquito outbreak, there is no transmission,” she said, adding that the problem had to be tackled at source. “We can eliminate flying mosquitoes, but if we don’t eliminate the larvae, eggs and pupae, they will continue to emerge and transmit the disease.” Cuban officials believe that with lower temperatures coming, the arboviruses will also decrease. However, they insist on mosquitos being dealt with in the home.
Indoor fumigation work in Havana, December 2.Juan Palop (EFE)
In a country with a collapsed health system, not even the doctors themselves have escaped arboviruses. Those who are still working in Cuban hospitals – 70,000 workers in the sector have quit and more than 30,000 doctors have emigrated in the last three years – “do so with the bare minimum, with almost nothing,” said a nurse from the Matanzas polyclinic, who had the virus and remains in severe pain that will probably stay with her for another six months to a year. According to the nurse, eight clinics closed last month because the staff had been infected.
“Sometimes I read that we are accomplices of tyranny. But it is not like that. This is a profession that we choose because we love it, irrespective of politics. It hurts when you can’t cure the patient and they have to go out to buy their medicines on the street. When we speak out in meetings with the management and the municipality, they just say that there are no resources, because of the blockade.”
At the end of last month, Dr. C. Osvaldo Castro Peraza, a specialist at IPK, said on the official program Mesa Redondathat the chikungunya epidemic “is going to pass” and will soon be history. People are tired of this argument, of the figures being manipulated.
Time will pass and the pain that Matitza Ricardo Velázquez feels as she fights the virus in her home in the municipality of Gibara, will linger. Several days ago, she lost her 42-year-old cousin who was fit and healthy, contradicting the official version that the virus only kills sick elderly folk. “She was strong and full of life,” she says. The day they had to take her cousin to the hospital, the ambulance did not arrive. “Her kidneys began to seize up and the liquid spread through her body. She died in the early hours.” Now she wonders who will be next.
Cuba today is indeed a country of sick citizens who do not know exactly what they are suffering from. All they know is that they are being infected by “the virus” – a sinister ghost that has drifted across the entire island, wiping out its inhabitants. First come the high fevers, then red spots develop, or else peeling skin. Vomiting, diarrhea and headaches are inevitable. The hands and knees swell. Victims can barely stand on their feet, and there are those who have not walked again even after the worst is over. A limp indicates a virus survivor. Citizens who drag their legs or complain about achy joints have likely also been hit. According to Maidelys Solano, 38, who was ill at home in Bayamo along with her two children, her father and nephews, every morning in every Cuban neighborhood, people are saying, “It hurts here, it hurts there, today I am a little better, or I could not get out of bed. That’s how all the neighbors are, it’s what they repeat daily.”
Almost all families in Cuba have had someone sick at home due to the country’s epidemiological crisis. The disease is in fact a combination of several mosquito-borne viruses, a model of “combined arboviruses” that includes dengue, Oropouche and chikungunya, as well as other respiratory viruses such as H1N influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and Covid-19. According to figures published by the Ministry of Public Health, 5,717 new cases of chikungunya were reported in the last week, bringing the number of patients suffering from it to 38,938. As for dengue, the ministry said the disease remains active in the country’s 14 provinces and 113 municipalities.
An alarming 33 deaths were reported at the beginning of the week which the government was forced to recognize, including 21 minors – the demographic most affected by these arboviruses along with the elderly. “There are many one-month-old children who have died, and also those between two and four years of age, as well as other young people, because the vomiting and diarrhea dehydrates them and they arrive at the hospital already in a state of collapse,” a worker at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology of El Vedado told El PAÍS on condition of anonymity.
Cuban officials, who are always reluctant to acknowledge any catastrophe, have been refusing to accept that there is a health crisis, insisting that these are common diseases for the islanders, accustomed to the summer heat and torrential tropical downpours. “They are neither new, nor are they rare or unknown,” Public Health Minister José Ángel Portal Miranda said in October. He then tried to dismiss speculation arising from the countless reports of deaths: “No one can hide an epidemic or the dead,” he claimed.
While the minister was expressing this view, Cubans in the province of Matanzas were complaining about the high rate of infections without knowing exactly what they were dealing with. Now, with hospitals and morgues overflowing, it is difficult for the ministry to ignore the evidence, though many Cubans maintain that the number of the ill and the dead is far higher than the state is willing to acknowledge.
Dr. Justo Benitez examines Luisa Suarez at her home on November 18.Norlys Perez (REUTERS)
The government has managed to disguise the figures by issuing death certificates that fail to mention arboviruses. “The doctors say that they died of a heart attack, anything but the virus,” says the worker at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology. In Solano’s neighborhood in the east of the country, several people have died in recent weeks. She says that in medical centers they put the deaths down to underlying conditions such as diabetes, pneumonia or hypertension. “But in my town, there are several people who have died from respiratory arrest or dehydration,” she says.
On October 18, Alexander Hernández’s 81-year-old mother felt ill and went to bed to rest. She was completely doubled over. Shortly after, she was taken to hospital and the doctor suspected a case of chikungunya. After a week, she experienced alterations in her diabetes and blood pressure and was suffering tachycardia. “The doctor saw her twice and checked her vital signs,” says the son. A few days later, they said everything was under control, and that she could return home. On November 5 she died. Hernández asked for an autopsy, but the doctor resisted. “He said no, and I didn’t insist because there was no transportation. He practically convinced me that it would be pointless.” His mother’s death certificate states that hers was a natural death.
Finally, the Cuban government has been left with no choice but to recognize the “national epidemiological situation” that has Cubans in a state of panic. The outlook is so critical that some have appealed to the international community not to let their so-called diseased ship sink with its millions of people on board. While state officials downplay the matter, insisting that it is not an outbreak exclusive to Cuba, and that cases are being reported in Brazil and Colombia, the truth is that the general shortages and state of collapse in Cuba have severely undermined the authorities’ ability to control the disease.
Mercedes Interian says that she is using medicinal plants to self-medicate, because of the absence of prescription drugs in a country that suffers a 70% deficit of medication supplies. She boils water and adds oregano leaves, a clove of garlic, and four cloves – a concoction she drinks in the mornings and evenings. “The truth is we don’t know how to fight it,” she says. “They send you home to rest. We are unprotected in every way. We don’t even know what we really have.”
What worries Cubans most is the lack of proper diagnostic procedures in health institutions that can tell them what type of virus they are suffering from. “For chikungunya, Oropouche or sika there are no diagnostic reagents, only at health institutes in Havana, including the IPK. The doctors write down Non-Specific Febrile Syndrome,” says a nurse from a clinic in Matanzas who prefers to remain anonymous. “To determine if it is dengue, the Immunoglobulin M [IgM] test needs to be run, which tells you the strain. It is not a lie to say that we are dying.”
Solano says that, once you go to hospital, no one tells you what type of disease you have. “If you start to swell, they tell you it’s chikungunya, if not, it’s dengue. Almost everyone has swelling, so most of them have chikungunya. You don’t hear a doctor giving a specific diagnosis. On the certificates they say that you have a virus – always trying to mask the reality we live in,” she says.
EL PAÍS’ source at the Institute of Hematology and Immunology says that many times the results of IgM tests never arrive. “It was reported that they were discarding the samples a lot of the time because there were no reagents to process them, and the patients were given a negative result. There is no such thing as an accurate diagnosis. From the symptoms, it is known that it is an arbovirus.”
Right now, Yudinela Castro Pérez has a scar left by almost 20 stitches that furrows her belly. For the doctors, everything was fine and the symptoms were “normal.” First there was the usual fever, pain, swelling and stiffness. “They told me that I was not the only one going through that,” says the 44-year-old. Then she ate a taro dish and her abdomen swelled to such a degree that she was rushed from her home in Arroyo Naranjo to the Julio Trigo hospital. “They did tests that supposedly came back negative,” she said. Subsequently, she learned that the virus – she’s not sure which – had inflamed her intestine and she had perforations due to silent peritonitis. She has had to buy her own antibiotics and painkillers on the black market, when available.
People search through garbage in the streets of Havana, December 3.Ramon Espinosa (AP)
Several Cubans interviewed by EL PAÍS are concerned that the dearth of good food is damaging their chances of recovery. A nutritional guide to which EL PAÍS had access, circulated by the Pedro Kourí Institute (IPK), reports that, among other things, chikungunya consumes iron reserves, decreases albumin and other proteins, and raises C-reactive protein, all factors that weaken the immune system. According to IPK, a prestigious research center for infectious disease, it is vital to eat eggs, yogurt, whey, fish such as salmon, tuna or sardines, vegetables, nuts and certain grains. Most of these products are inaccessible to most Cubans. “Cubans’ diet nowadays consists of picadillo and rice, and once in a long while a dish made from roots, so it’s impossible,” says Mercedes Interian. “Here, you might not eat any protein in the whole year – only some people can – and without a good diet, the impact of the virus is more virulent.”
The reasons why Cuba became a hotbed of mosquitoes and disease overnight is what many today are trying to figure out. The authorities have come up with the fact that Cuba has a “virgin” population in the face of a virus such as chikungunya, which was discovered on the island for the first time in 2014. They have also attributed the causes to the months of heat and rain that create favorable conditions for the mosquito. Although the country has mobilized forces at the last minute for garbage collection, the fact is the garbage got out of hand due to a lack of government action. And large garbage dumps have fostered a proliferation of mosquito infestations. With daily blackouts, Cuba lacks the fuel to guarantee fumigation. Meanwhile, insecticides are scarce and the lack of watermeans even minimum hygiene is difficult to attain. The infestation rate, which has become practically uncontrollable, stands at a high risk 0.89%.
Dr. Geanela Cruz Ávila, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Holguín, told Cuba’s state-controlled news outlet ¡Ahora! that if they had failed in anything, it was in prevention. “In vector-borne diseases, the focus must be on the vector. Without a mosquito outbreak, there is no transmission,” she said, adding that the problem had to be tackled at source. “We can eliminate flying mosquitoes, but if we don’t eliminate the larvae, eggs and pupae, they will continue to emerge and transmit the disease.” Cuban officials believe that with lower temperatures coming, the arboviruses will also decrease. However, they insist on mosquitos being dealt with in the home.
Indoor fumigation work in Havana, December 2.Juan Palop (EFE)
In a country with a collapsed health system, not even the doctors themselves have escaped arboviruses. Those who are still working in Cuban hospitals – 70,000 workers in the sector have quit and more than 30,000 doctors have emigrated in the last three years – “do so with the bare minimum, with almost nothing,” said a nurse from the Matanzas polyclinic, who had the virus and remains in severe pain that will probably stay with her for another six months to a year. According to the nurse, eight clinics closed last month because the staff had been infected.
“Sometimes I read that we are accomplices of tyranny. But it is not like that. This is a profession that we choose because we love it, irrespective of politics. It hurts when you can’t cure the patient and they have to go out to buy their medicines on the street. When we speak out in meetings with the management and the municipality, they just say that there are no resources, because of the blockade.”
At the end of last month, Dr. C. Osvaldo Castro Peraza, a specialist at IPK, said on the official program Mesa Redondathat the chikungunya epidemic “is going to pass” and will soon be history. People are tired of this argument, of the figures being manipulated.
Time will pass and the pain that Matitza Ricardo Velázquez feels as she fights the virus in her home in the municipality of Gibara, will linger. Several days ago, she lost her 42-year-old cousin who was fit and healthy, contradicting the official version that the virus only kills sick elderly folk. “She was strong and full of life,” she says. The day they had to take her cousin to the hospital, the ambulance did not arrive. “Her kidneys began to seize up and the liquid spread through her body. She died in the early hours.” Now she wonders who will be next.
Rootless Cosmopolitan
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Apologies for the double post, but it’s been a while.
Now that Venezuela has been toppled and Maduro is hog tied in the back of a van in DC, I am wondering if we will see more movement on the Cuba situation. Venezuela has been Cuba’s main backer for a while, even tho that has been breaking down recently (see the slowing of subsidized energy imports which triggered the blackouts and the sanitation crisis).
Now that Venezuela has been toppled and Maduro is hog tied in the back of a van in DC, I am wondering if we will see more movement on the Cuba situation. Venezuela has been Cuba’s main backer for a while, even tho that has been breaking down recently (see the slowing of subsidized energy imports which triggered the blackouts and the sanitation crisis).
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Sorry if it might not fit that thread but those who complain about their cherished illegal aliens arrested to mass by ICE should have read that article about that Cuban lady.
Where's the pope now that Cuba's top Lady in White has been arrested on her way to Mass?
Illegal aliens in the U.S. get many complaints from the Vatican, the pope, and bishops about interference with Mass, but this Cuban lady gets no comment.
After making a big stink about illegal aliens afraid to go to Mass based on ICE enforcement, as well as ostentatiously issuing dispensations from Sunday obligations over it, the real terrorizers have come out of the woodwork in persecuting Catholics going to Mass.
No surprise, they're not American lawmen, they're communist Cuban goons:
Here's what they did yesterday:
SOS URGENTE | Ángel Moya denuncia: ARRESTAN A BERTA SOLER
La Habana — 1 de enero de 2026
A las 2:40 p. m., paramilitares arrestaron en plena vía pública a Berta Soler Fernández cuando se dirigía a la Misa por la Paz en la Catedral de La Habana.
Lugar del arresto: esquina de… pic.twitter.com/GWKeeHLZg2
— FNCA (@vozdelafnca) January 1, 2026
The lady in the center being hauled off by the female goons in expensive sportswear, is Berta Soler, the founder of the Ladies in White, a group of wives of Cuban political prisoners who hold silent witness to their husbands' persecution by the communist military dictatorship. The Ladies in White don't argue with the brutal state organs; all they do is wear white, hold silent walks with white gladiolas in hand, and mostly just go to Mass and pray.
For that, she got hauled off to prison -- and probable torture -- by Cuba's communist state henchmen.
And there's not been a word about it from either the Vatican or the U.S. bishops.