Jon Lee Anderson

They were suffering from this mosquito-borne disease that causes terrible pain in the extremities.

It's like arthritis on speed.

It's terrible pain in the extremities.

One was living downstairs in her house where she lives alone because she literally couldn't go up the stairs.

And the only drug that

that could ameliorate the symptoms of this very painful, was available on the black market at, you know, huge rates, equivalent of US rates, which are pretty ridiculous, you know, anywhere in the world.

And, yeah, there's been this outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases because...

People are malnourished.

You know, they're more vulnerable to diseases.

The mosquitoes have bred because there's a lot of standing water, because the municipal services that would normally get rid of it can't run their trucks because they don't have fuel to do so.

And garbage has piled up as well in neighborhoods, which never used to happen on street corners, which is another, of course, you know, any open receptacles.

These are sources of mosquito.

This is mosquito breeding ground.

And that's another one of the shocking sights in Cuba.

This was the cleanest place you could see in the Western Hemisphere.

Clean, clean, clean.

And now it's dirty.

And that's shocking.

So it's one, you know, the thigh bone connected to the head bone, like that old song.

That's what's happening to Cuba.