Category: Dossier Cuba 21 English

The reason that more than 67% of the population (7,435,690 citizens) does not receive water in a stable manner today is the result of the abandonment of the maintenance of the water network for more than half a century while resources were invested in building more and more reservoirs for propaganda purposes. nvestments prioritize the provision of water to the tourist centers of GAESA’s oligarchic conglomerate and are not oriented to guarantee the right of accessing drinking water for the citizens.

Cuba’s energy challenges have no immediate solution. Cuba’s power generation infrastructure is obsolete, and in many cases, it is impractical to attempt its repair. It will take 6 to 8 years (some estimate ten) and a multi-million-dollar investment (approximately $10 billion) to rebuild the thermoelectric generation capacity. The only possible solution is to eliminate the state controlled (totalitarian) economy and move to a free market economy.

Today, the main challenge to change towards an open, democratic, and prosperous society based on the rule of law and a free market, is the need to reach a consensus among different social sectors and actors on a shared road map to transform the highly probable upcoming rebellions into a broad social movement aimed at displacing the power of the oligarchy.

Remittances to Cuba experienced a drop of 3.31% with respect to 2022 (2,040.25 million), totaling only 1,972.56 million dollars. The figure reached in 2023 represents a drop of 46.93% compared to 2019 and the social tension within the country has not diminished.

The Cuban oligarchy through its holding company GAESA not only arbitrarily appropriated no less than 69.8 billion dollars ($69,866,399,679) in a little more than a decade, belonging to the salaries of the doctors working in the international brigades, but by not reinvesting them in the public health system as the Cuban government had announced will be the case, it also robbed the nation of its right to enjoy comprehensive quality health security. That is what this research shows.

The Cuban oligarchy grouped in GAESA does not have as its priority to solve the national food problems, but to increase corporate profit from the needs of the population in this aspect. To achieve this objective, they do not need to increase production, but rather to profit by importing food products that are later sold in the retail networks controlled by them.

The development of a genuine private sector in Cuba requires significant changes in government policies. Without these basic economic freedoms and rights, MSMEs in Cuba cannot be the solution to the country’s economic crisis.

If the sending of remittances to Cuba in these 30 years has demonstrated anything, it is the real financial potential of the exile community, in close economic alliance with Cuban residents in the island, to be able to quickly transform the country the day that basic freedoms are restored and respected in the island. In as few as three years the country could be a different one.

The Cuban Citizen Audit Observatory considers very relevant the comparison of quarterly behavior of public security where crimes practically doubled in Cuba from one quarter to the other for a 92% increase.

Two letters were sent to Democratic Senator Bob Menendez accusing him of spreading the “false narrative” that there is no association between the U.S. sanctions and the economic and humanitarian crises in Cuba and Venezuela. There is no doubt that the letters sent to Senator Bob Menendez lack objectivity and common sense.

Cuba has chosen to be a belligerent country on the side of the aggressor in a European war, where Putin has been declared a war criminal and against whom the International Criminal Court in The Hague has issued an arrest warrant.

The Cuban diaspora -today still excluded- constitutes, together with the talent of Cubans on the island, the most reliable engine to initiate the take-off towards the free and prosperous Cuba we all deserve.