NYT: Largest Exodus Imperils Future Of Ailing Cuba

[LizardGizmo]

‘Cuba Is Depopulating’: Largest Exodus Yet Threatens Country’s Future

The pandemic and tougher U.S. sanctions have decimated Cuba’s economy, prompting the biggest migration since Fidel Castro rose to power.

 

The country has been hit by a one-two-punch of tighter U.S. sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic, which eviscerated one of Cuba’s lifelines — the tourism industry. Food has become even more scarce and more expensive, lines at pharmacies with scant supplies begin before dawn and millions of people endure daily hourslong blackouts.

Over the last year, nearly 250,000 Cubans, more than 2 percent of the island’s 11 million population, have migrated to the United States, most of them arriving at the southern border by land, according to U.S. government data.

Full article (no paywall):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/world/americas/cuba-us-migration.html?unlocked_article_code=VFFY11S_zeMmIiuGrNCfohGE4XFdrwWuVAlXfnhtLwofzJl9-C5aROK4L_NHjDiCN84VNsqa7lxKrOrOM7zntHVAX8OWlovWoi7911m1QlegzFlpyVLGF5rNDJaBi3ksICYNRv0niYIgdjpoVlwK_rATY0RTiRGdSFTwcCT6lol6JDJR4oQOEv9yeBHujIq_fFqY5hze_nvwywneN4uUe0ZJ6GoPK-3hPj5USHPV52g_uphZcNei5n9rjG59PBoHSEUqB0X83EgRo91H_76iLjoC6Hpq__Pcq8Q9CnJVD_boojvVd6SZFqdOy6tU-czlepXZ0BGYmUhAEjjHBiyNusj-&smid=share-url

Almost every citizen we spoke to last month in Cuba mentioned the migrations as creating a serious fear about the future of Cuba. Big feature on tomorrow morning's front page of Sunday NYT.

[MrBirdman]

I think this says it all:

“… the government electric company boasted this month that electrical service had run uninterrupted that day for 13 hours and 13 minutes.“

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Sad.