Electricity, fuel, and essentials evaporate as an immutable Cuba faces Washington’s latest onslaught. Yet it is the Cuban people caught in the crossfire of internal and external pressures.
Indeed, but garbage trucks have been idle long before Jan 29, when the oil embargo was decreed. In fact, inefficiency in garbage and sanitation services has always been a chronic problem in Cuba—even at the height of Venezuela's oil shipments.
This is not new, and the situation has only deteriorated in the past few years, with trash and raw sewage accumulating even in the "better" areas of Havana, where this was infrequent.
Anyone who lives in Cuba or visits frequently knows this—its basic context.
Garbage trucks need gasoline.
Indeed, but garbage trucks have been idle long before Jan 29, when the oil embargo was decreed. In fact, inefficiency in garbage and sanitation services has always been a chronic problem in Cuba—even at the height of Venezuela's oil shipments.
This is not new, and the situation has only deteriorated in the past few years, with trash and raw sewage accumulating even in the "better" areas of Havana, where this was infrequent.
Anyone who lives in Cuba or visits frequently knows this—its basic context.