
Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady provides a comprehensive overview of Cuba's worsening economic crisis. She details how the loss of subsidies from Venezuela and the Soviet Union, coupled with decades of underinvestment in infrastructure like the electrical grid, has led to accelerating power outages, food and water shortages, and growing public unrest. The crisis is further exacerbated by endemic mosquito-borne illnesses, leaving the population in dire straits and needing a bailout.