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Cuba at Its Poorest Since 1959: 89% in Extreme Poverty, 92% Reject Regime

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Nearly nine in ten Cubans now live in extreme poverty and public discontent with the government has reached record highs, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Madrid-based Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos (OCDH). The annual report, based on 1,344 in-person interviews across 70 municipalities, found 89% of Cubans classified as extremely poor under […]

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A report by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights revealed that most homes on the island suffer from precariousness, with high levels of dissatisfaction and difficulties in accessing food, medicines and basic services. “In Cuba there are no beggars... There are people pretending to be beggars to earn easy money,” the regime’s former Minister of Labour and Social Security said in July, ignoring that 89% of Cuban families live in extreme poverty …

Cuba faces an unprecedented social crisis: 89% of the population live in extreme poverty. A report by the Cuban Human Rights Observatory shows that most households in the communist-ruled Caribbean island live in precarious conditions, with high levels of dissatisfaction and difficulties in access to food, medicines and basic services. "In Cuba there is [...] The post Unexampled social crisis in Cuba: 89% of the population live in extreme poverty…

The eighth Study on Social Rights by the #OCDH paints a picture of an exhausted #Cuba: 92% disapproval of the government, long-term unemployment, and older adults as the hardest hit.

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diariodecuba.com broke the news in on Tuesday, September 9, 2025.
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