The States of Social Rights in Cuba. Report #7 (2024)

The 89% of Cuban families suffer from extreme poverty.

The food crisis and the shortage of medicines, and high rates of unemployment, hit millions of Cubans, who see the course of their lives passing after past calls for civic resistance, not expecting any alternatives other than “solving” or escaping.

Since 2019, in accordance with the findings collected in these reports on the state of social rights, we have denounced the growing deterioration of the socioeconomic situation on the island. We have been warning with data in hand, resulting from thousands of systematic interviews throughout the whole country, about the reality of a humanitarian disaster that would ultimately worsen, supporting our analyses drawn from the grievances that we received from both our observers and the locals.

Cubans suffer and also complain in the streets, but the authorities do not listen. Perhaps a reflection of this is the high level of disapproval found in this survey about the  government’s economic and social management, reaching 91% its record figure since we are measuring this parameter.

This dire situation is based on the fact that only 3% believe that the current Cuban model should be the reference for future development while the vast majority prefer models such as the North American one (53%), or the Spanish/European (21%) to get out of the current crisis.

Similar to earlier reports, this seventh report offers objective data on our investigation about the social rights conditions prevailing on the island while also highlighting the seriousness of the situation in Cuba, which calls for an urgent resolution.