Cubans Turn to Charcoal and Wood as U.S. Pressure Deepens Island's Energy Crisis

Cubans with respiratory conditions like asthma are forced to inhale toxic fumes from burning plastic and charcoal indoors, directly endangering their health.

In Santiago de Cuba, an island already long acquainted with scarcity, the energy crisis has crossed into a new and more intimate threshold — one measured not in blackouts or fuel gauges, but in the lungs of ordinary people. As U.S. economic pressure tightens its grip on the communist government's ability to import fuel, Cubans like fifty-eight-year-old Yusimi Castellano are burning charcoal and plastic indoors simply to feed their families, trading their health for a meal. What unfolds in her eighteenth-floor apartment each evening is not merely a story of poverty or politics, but of the quiet

Cubans Turn to Charcoal and Wood as U.S. Pressure Deepens Island's Energy Crisis

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