In Communist Cuba, Elderly Left to Struggle on $10 Pensions
An elderly woman sits on her bed in Holguin, Cuba, on April 27, 2012. STR/AFP/GettyImages

In Communist Cuba, Elderly Left to Struggle on $10 Pensions

After more than 60 years of communism, Cuba’s population is suffering with a broken health care system, plummeting birth rates, and economic collapse.
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Cubans continue to flee a worsening economy in record numbers while the elderly have been left behind, fighting to survive on the communist regime’s $10 monthly pension and a critical lack of basic supplies.

Food, power, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical shortages have ignited persistent protests this year and driven Cuba’s ongoing exodus of working-age adults.
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