Socialism is a disastrous failure, and that failure is made worse by the fact that socialists simply cannot adapt and only know how to double down on those failings. That’s what’s been happening in Cuba for the past 65 years, and continues to this day.
Via the Center for a FREE Cuba:
Cuba without water, electricity, and food, but the dictatorship doubles down on communist central planning to solve its multiple crises
“Cuba without water and electricity” is the title of a 11 minute 23 second video news report prepared by Palenquevision that was published on their Youtube channel on September 4, 2024, and now has over 28,000 views.The report is in Spanish, and features a number of interviews with local Cubans, and images of the deteriorating infrastructure.
U.S. News & World Report on September 13, 2024 reported that over 600,000 Cubans “are suffering from water supply issues, officials said earlier this month.” This appears to be a conservative assessment.
This is not a new story, but one that has been unfolding over the past 65 years, and growing progressively worse.
“Cuba’s water issues stem from an obsolete and deteriorating infrastructure. The original water and sewage systems on the island were installed by the Spanish during their colonial rule of Cuba. Very little maintenance has been done on the system in the five decades since the revolution in 1959,” said University of Miami’s College of Engineering Professor Helena Solo-Gabriele in 2017. The University of Miami was conducting an interdisciplinary study on “how Cubans on the island cope with water issues that result in health and hygiene concerns.”
Despite receiving large subsidies from the Soviet Union for over three decades (1959 – 1991) the Cuban dictatorship did not invest in infrastructure during this time, or when large amounts of resources again began to enter Cuba under the regime of Hugo Chavez. Maintaining the island’s infrastructure was not a “revolutionary priority.”
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