What daily life looks like in collapsing Cuba
Yunia Figueredo, an independent journalist in Havana, sent me a voice message recently from her daughter's phone because her own had no data connection.
Earlier that morning, she had tried to boil eggs for her youngest daughter's breakfast during one of Cuba's brief bursts of electricity.
“The electricity came on for one minute, then three minutes later they cut it,” Figueredo said. “The egg is still there in the pot.”
Her daughter has health conditions that prevent her from eating staples like rice or beans. With charcoal nearly impossible to find, almost everything in her kitchen depends on electricity that may last only minutes at a time.
"This is not life," Figueredo said. "We are dying here."
Cuba is in the grip of its worst crisis in decades. Blackouts last most of the day. Pharmacies are empty. A liter of gasoline now costs more than a Cuban worker’s monthly salary.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/05/29/cuba-electricity-blackouts-food-us-intervention/90259853007/?tbref=hp
And WE are largely responsible. This is the Holodomor all over again (f you don't know what that was, look it up. Shitler is the modern-day Stalin, only stupider.)
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We have a 21st century precedent - so why not?
The US must no longer live in fear of free healthcare and tuition for Cubans and Cuban medical doctors providing free health care to the Gobal South that exceeds that of all G8 countries combined.
Oh the SOCIALISM, it breaks your heart to think of such an abomination to the capitalist freedom-loving U.S.!
Better to starve and genocide them into submission.
