20-hour blackouts, garbage-lined streets: this is life under Cuba’s ‘war economy’
- Posted on August 22, 2025
- By CNN
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20-hour blackouts, garbage-lined streets: this is life under Cuba’s ‘war economy’
The smell of garbage is overwhelming and intense under the Caribbean sun. The accumulated waste is such that an entire street in Havana, far from its tourist district, was blocked to traffic.
