cubaninsider: Deadly Diseases Hit Economic-ravaged Cuba

2.12.25

Deadly Diseases Hit Economic-ravaged Cuba

Latest Jolt for Cuba in December of 2025

Today -- December 3rd in 2025 -- the Associated Press flashed this photo around the world from Havana with this caption: "A national police officer directs traffic in Havana after a power outage. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. {AP photo by Ramon Espinosa}." Of course, constant power outages are not the only dire economic problems plaguing Cuba in this last month of 2025.

In this first week of December in 2025 above you can see the Top five Cuban Headlines flashing around the world. Adding to Cuba's drastic economic problems are deadly preventable diseases -- Chikungunya and Dengue -- that are killing Cubans including 21 children in recent days. London-based Reuters is the international News Agency best covering that news while CBS News is the U. S. news source best reporting it. Below are the first three paragraphs of the CBS News report on December 2, 2025:

As shown above, CBS News this week points out that Cuba has "long been known for its medical and pharmaceutical expertise" but now Cuba simply does not have the economic wherewithal to deal with such a problem involving chikungunya and Dengue that in years past the island's medical expertise was praised for dealing with, a fact that other Caribbean nations learned from and benefited from. Also note that in the last paragraph shown above CBS News said: "With the country under U. S. sanctions and its critical tourism sector left in ruins by Covid, a dearth of foreign currency has seen a steep decline in Cuba's medical service and prevention programs such as mosquito fumigation."

Since January of 2025 Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U. S. President Donald Trump have tightened the U. S. sanctions on Cuba, including the tightening of the U. S. Embargo on the nearby island. In this first week in December in 2025 CBS News cited "U. S. sanctions" as a key reason Cuba no longer is able to adequately protect its citizens from preventable mosquito-driven diseases as chikungunya and dengue.

The important CBS News update on the mosquito-caused diseases currently killing Cubans in December of 2025 relate, as pointed out by CBS News, to "U.S. sanctions" -- most notably the endless U. S. EMBARGO that, incredibly, has existed since 1962 and in 2025 is harsher than ever!!!

In this first week in December in 2025 the latest important nation to give up on Cuba is Belgium, which in the past had been supportive of the Cuban people.

There are now 193 nations that make up the United Nations. Each October for the past 33 years the UN Nations have voted overwhelmingly to beg the United States to end its Embargo on Cuba, usually with only the U. S. and Israel voting to keep it. But in 2025 the U. S. -- the richest and most powerful nation in the world -- was influential enough to get a total of seven nations to support the Embargo, including countries such as Ukraine and Montenegro. But still the near-unanimity against the Embargo continues to be ignored year-after-year by the United States.