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…