A woman peeks out from the doorway of her home in Havana, Cuba, on May 6, 2026. Yamil LAge/AFP via Getty Images When I first visited Cuba, the island was recovering from a severe economic crisis. It was 1996, and the collapse of the Soviet Union had ushered in a prolonged period of deprivation and hardship. On my latest visit, in early June, I encountered yet another crisis, a slow-motion humanitarian disaster. The island is coping with severe shortages of fuel and electricity, among other esse