Cuba faces severe energy crisis as citizens resort to charcoal and firewood

Reports of extreme hunger, fainting episodes, and widespread food insecurity affecting Cuban population during energy crisis.

Beneath the Caribbean sun, Cuba finds itself at a threshold where modernity has quietly retreated — families cooking over charcoal and firewood not as tradition but as necessity, a signal that the island's infrastructure has crossed from strain into collapse. Decades of embargo have compounded internal mismanagement to produce a cascade of failures: power plants dark, hospitals strained, ports blocked, and airlines departing. What unfolds in Cuba today is an old and unresolved argument between geopolitical will and human need, playing out in the hunger of ordinary people who did not choose thi

Cuba faces severe energy crisis as citizens resort to charcoal and firewood

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