Cuba’s looming humanitarian catastrophe

Living conditions on the island are deteriorating at an alarming rate, as the Cuban regime runs out of resources to maintain a modern, functioning society and is unwilling to enact the necessary reforms to save the country from collapse. The fallout from the regime's disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the exodus of 10% of the island's population in just two years, the vast majority being working-age people, has led to an acute shortage of workers in critical industries, leading to a collapse in industrial and agricultural production, infrastructure and public services. Due to the combined effects of 64 years of inefficient central planning and the US's economic embargo, Cuba's healthcare infrastructure, water infrastructure, electrical infrastructure, roads, bridges and buildings are in an advanced state of decay and their deterioration is accelerating exponentially. Cuba is facing a very dark and uncertain future as the fabric of its society unravels.