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Cuba’s Shortages & Blackouts: Ideal Setting for Crime Surge

“Hopefully it’s just a bad run and we can return to peace of mind,” in Cuba said singer Yuliesky Perez Placeres.

The most recent wheat flour crisis in Cuba has added another concern to the already poor diet Cubans have on the island today.

There is no water, food spoils, children cry; people on the streets look like zombies, sad, silent, hopeless. This is today’s Cuba.

This time it is Hurricane Ian, but the people of Pinar del Rio remember Gustav, Ike, Isidore, Lily, among others.

It’s 1 AM and there are two young women trying to study in the living room of the women’s residence at a Cuban university…

For businesses that depend on electricity and the Internet, this new season of blackouts has been stifling in more than one sense.

People know La Crema for his “musical news”: reggaeton videos that tell you what’s going on in Cuba, better than the state-controlled media.

Cuban émigrés tend to stay connected with events on the island, be it through contact with relatives, social networks or online media.

Foreign currency prices – as well as the Cuban magnetic card currency (MLC) – have shot up on Cuba’s illicit market in recent weeks.

Shortages of feminine hygiene products have shot up prices, and also encourages non-certified products to make their way onto the market.