Ilaria Salas

The situation is quite complicated.

You know, life is going on quite slowly in the city.

The impression is, I don't know, something like cities in Italy, for instance, during the pandemic.

I visited on the first day also health centres and hospitals for children.

And so I could see that there is a...

Problems in finding some kinds of medicines because of the embargo.

Medicines that are produced in the U.S.

cannot be sold to Cuba.

And for this reason, the lives and health of many children in Cuba are under threat.

And there is also, of course, a problem that regards energy.

And so it's also a problem to make all the machineries from the hospital work properly and with the correct speed.

So they managed to do it, but it's quite a hard job.

And they also have to be very careful about how much energy that is left.

Let's just expand for a moment on that energy collapse.

You've mentioned the situation at the hospitals.

We're really talking about the most vulnerable there.

But on a day to day basis, people are battling with these daily blackouts.

So people are resisting and they are trying to make everything work.

It's quite difficult.

The impact on the day-by-day life, it's quite complicated.