Waste piles up in Cuba as US-imposed fuel blockade halts collection trucks
Al Jazeera
Cubans suffer under a US fuel blockade as President Donald Trump calls the Caribbean country a ‘failed nation’.
The United States-imposed fuel crisis in Cuba is also turning into a waste and health crisis, as many collection trucks have been left with empty fuel tanks, causing refuse to pile up on the streets of the capital, Havana, and other cities and towns.
Only 44 of Havana’s 106 rubbish trucks have been able to keep operating due to the fuel shortages, slowing rubbish collection, as waste piles up on Havana’s street corners, the Reuters news agency reported on Monday, citing state-run news outlet Cubadebate.
Other towns are also seeing rubbish pile up, and residents have taken to social media to raise the alarm over the risk to public health, according to Reuters, citing Cuban media.
“It’s all over the city,” said Jose Ramon Cruz, a resident of Havana.
“It’s been more than 10 days since a garbage truck came,” Cruz told Reuters.
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