“Cuban economist and demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos believes that Cuba is suffering a cascade of crises that are bringing it progressively closer to ‘implosion.’”[1]
“There is an emergency situation that is beyond a health emergency, it is a humanitarian crisis.” And “the loss of some two million inhabitants since 2022, out of a population of 10.5 million, places Cuba in the midst of a ‘refugee crisis.’”
Moreover, “The insistence on reforming the unreformable has eroded the metabolism of the system and is leading it to a point of no return.”
Cuba now is in a “‘polycrisis,’ ‘a cascade of crises that overlap and act in a combined manner’ and that has caused the island to be the country that has fallen the most in the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) . From position 51 in 2007 it fell to 73 ten years later, an abrupt fall that continued to worsen in recent years to currently place it in position 85 on this list.”
Albizu-Campos is a former deputy head of the state-run National Office of Statistics and Information and now at the Christian Center for Reflection and Dialogue (CCRD), an ecumenical Cuban organization that grew out of several community development programs and a process of theological renewal within the Reformed Presbyterian Church. [2]
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[1] Demographer: Cuba suffers a ‘cascade of crises’ and is approaching ‘implosion,,’ Diario de Cuba (July23, 2024).