English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
In the neighborhood of Luyanó, residents scattered the garbage until it blocked the street; in other areas of Havana they have set fire to the mountains of trash 14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 9 April 2024 — A narrow path for motorcycles and bicycles was all that was left this Monday on Reforma Street, at … Continue reading “The Mountains of Garbage Cause Distress Over the The State’s Inefficiency”
14ymedio, Havana, December 26, 2023 — Cases of leptospirosis are increasing, the health authorities of Guantánamo announced on Monday, after informing the official press that this year 44 people are suspected of having contracted the disease, 12 more than those counted in 2022. So far, they acknowledged, two deaths have been reported in the municipalities … Continue reading “Leptospirosis Skyrockets in Cuba, the Country of Rats and Mountains of Garbage”
People must deposit solid waste in designated areas starting at 6:00 p.m. 14ymedio, Havana, 21 August 2024 — Havana’s municipality of Cerro has turned to a private company to collect the mountains of garbage that have accumulated for months in the streets. In the area, one of the most densely populated in the Cuban capital, … Continue reading “A Private Company Is Hired in Havana To Collect Mountains of Accumulated Garbage”
14ymedio, Havana, 29 September 2024 — From the satellite cameras it looks like a stain on the outskirts of Matanzas. Those who walk by have the impression of visiting a museum of Cuban ruins from the last 20 years. It is the city’s landfill, “founded” – if the word can be used – in 2003 … Continue reading “Wild Pigs, Vultures and Dumpster Divers Live From the Garbage in a Giant Landfill in Matanzas, Cuba”
The trash collection containers were resold for up to 15,000 pesos, reported the official Fuerza del Pueblo website. 14ymedio, Havana, April 15, 2024 — The head of Comunales de Santa Clara, in Villa Clara, has been arrested for diverting garbage collection cans for resale in the informal market. According to the state Fuerza del Pueblo … Continue reading “Cuba: The Head of Comunales de Santa Clara Was Arrested for Reselling Garbage Containers”
14ymedio, Miguel García, Havana, 15 January 2024 — Not even the Cuban military are saved from the mountains of garbage that are seen everywhere on the Island. The neighborhoods of Villanueva 2 and Villanueva 3, in the city of Holguín, where hundreds of workers of the Ministry of the Interior reside, is about to be … Continue reading “Not Even the ‘Integrated’ Neighborhoods in Cuba Are Saved From Garbage Piles Everywhere”
14ymedio, Juan Matos, Manzanillo (Granma Province), 31 December 2023 — It has been so many days since no one has collected the garbage on the streets of Manzanillo that the mountains of waste already have a uniform, ocher color. Due to the effect of the salt air and the indifference of the Community Services, the … Continue reading “Cubans in Manzanillo Try to Collect the Garbage Themselves Due to the Apathy of the Authorities”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 25 November 2023 — In Luyanó the word has spread. If the mountains of garbage are reported in the independent media, it is very likely that Community Services will arrive shortly afterwards to collect them. The equation is clear: call a reporter to take photos and testimonies and, within 24 … Continue reading “Luyano, Turned into Cuba’s Most Famous Garbage Dump, Screams for Help”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, November 23, 2023 — “Luyanó is going to become a giant bonfire.” The warning, recently published on a Facebook group of residents in the Havana neighborhood, was accompanied by a photo of Rodríguez Este Street, between Manuel Pruna and Juan Alonso: a formidable garbage dump, which neighbors had been denouncing for weeks, in flames. … Continue reading “Luyano, Cuba’s Garbage Capital, ‘Is Going to Become a Giant Bonfire’”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 3 January 2022 — The rattle of the Community Services trucks has people climbing sidewalks to make way for the giant. Two men get out and push a garbage container cracked on its sides. Among flies and shouts, customers waiting to shop at the Plaza de Carlos III see the garbage … Continue reading “Garbage Collection in Cuba: From Creative Resistance to Desperate Patch”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 9 September 9, 2024 — The heat and lack of water in wide areas of the Cuban capital did not prevent the church of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre on the corner of Manrique and Salud, in Central Havana, from being filled with devotees, who celebrate on September … Continue reading “Cubans Pay Tribute to ‘Cachita’ in the Midst of Inflation and a Mass Exodus”
The main tourist market on the Island registers a slight drop this year after two previous warnings 14ymedio, Havana, 1 September 2024 — For the third time in less than a year, the Government of Canada has published a warning, now about the increase in dengue fever, targeting its nationals traveling to Cuba. The two … Continue reading “Canada Publishes an Alert About Dengue Fever in Cuba, ‘Which Can Be Deadly’”
In Cuba, 35,000 cases were recorded in the first half of the year throughout the 15 provinces of the Island 14ymedio, Havana, 25 August 2024 — Authorities in Cuba, Brazil and Colombia are concerned about the outbreak of the Oropouche virus, a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes and that, for the first time, has … Continue reading “An Outbreak of Oropouche and Confirmed Deaths From This Virus Puts Latin America On Alert”
Reinaldo’s cell phone rings: someone is stuck in the elevator during the power cut this Thursday 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 22 August 2024 — There is a sudden silence. It is daytime, so the signs of the blackout do not appear through a lack of lighting but through the absence of sound. A deep emptiness … Continue reading “They Confront Us So That We Do Not Confront them”
Most people with Oropouche symptoms do not seek medical attention 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana, 22 August 2024 — A few months ago we didn’t even know how to pronounce its name, but the Oropouche virus has already become an uninvited guest in Cuban homes. In the neighborhood where I live, in Havana, every … Continue reading “The Oropouche Virus, An Unwanted Visitor in Thousands of Cuban Homes”
