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Cuba has plenty of doctors. So why is its healthcare system collapsing?

After months of fuel and water shortages, Cubans are facing a dire public health crisis. | Yamile Lage/AFP via Getty Images Since January 2026, many Cubans have lived a life of near-constant darkness. The Trump administration’s oil blockades have led the country into a worsening energy crisis, collapsing what was already an eroding national power grid.  Daily blackouts have plunged the Cuban nationalized, universal health system, once the pride of the country, into a humanitarian crisis. For months, hospitals have been without necessary power and ambulances strapped for fuel. Piles o...

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