Looks like Cuba is dropping off the map as a tourist destination due to the regularly scheduled blackouts which take out everything from A/C to ATMs, cell phone communications and their water and sewage systems.  Since tourism is one of the few ways Cuba gets FOREX with which to buy energy, this creates a positive feedback loop.  Less energy-->less tourism--->less money--->less energy, rinse & repeat.

Not surprisingly, there are now reports of civil unrest due to the continuing blackouts, along with increased crime on darkened streets.  The only thing surprising about this is how long it has taken for this type of social breakdown to take hold.

Other than reporting about the expanding problem though, nobody has offered up any solution to the widening crisis so the average Jose 6-pack gets to just twist in the wind as the country circles the toilet bowl of industrial civilization.  For collapse observers, it's a great window into the near future for many smaller and highly indebted countries like Greece and South Africa.  Still probably a few years away for the big economies like the FSoA and China, but it will get here in due time also.  Both countries have huge debt problems as well, but are TBTF and have some control over the availability of credit.  Not infinite control though.

In the meantime life in the Belly of the Beast is BAU, and most people look at what's happening in Cuba and think "it can't happen here".  They are in for a rude awakening when the time comes.

https://havanatimes.org/news/germany-issues-a-security-alert-for-travel-to-cuba/

Germany Issues a Security Alert for Travel to Cuba

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