Of course, if we focus on the specifics of the Cuban context, we have a Communist Party that tries to be as invasive as possible over the country, which ends up mismanaging everything… Let's focus on energy: the power plants have never been renovated and maintenance is nonexistent, the government has never sought alternatives to Venezuela's (mostly) external dependence, they also have problems paying debts even to their allies… all this exacerbated by external pressures, some of which are: they don't have access to SWIFT, allies are distancing themselves and have their own problems, and the most recent actions of Trump, geography doesn't help either.… in grosso modo