Cuba: Hotel employee dies of dengue fever in Cayo Largo

Apparently a young worker at the Pelícano Hotel in Cayo Largo del Sur died of dengue fever, as the spread of this disease is increasing in Cuba and there are no supplies or medicines necessary in hospitals to care for patients, according to Cubans around the world.

The death of a young man named Ángel Ariel Chávez has shocked his friends and family, since the boy was apparently a person who enjoyed good health and exercised.

On social media, his loved ones posted messages like that of Luis Manuel Laborda, who lamented the death of his co-worker. “Asere, I am in total shock, it is not possible that man and I got along great, OK, great guy, healthy, his exercises, but how is news like that possible, I am working and I still can’t believe it, my hair is standing on end, no, news like that is not possible,” he said.

According to the same media, in Cuba dengue cases are increasing every day as “the Oropouche Virus spreads, while hospitals on the island are collapsing,” it states in its publication.

As reported by REPORTUR.mxthe Cuban government of Miguel Díaz-Canel has declared a “war economy” due to the crisis that the island is going through and that has surpassed the so-called Special Period of the nineties, for which it has sought a new package of measures that aim to promote the “stability of the macroeconomy”, with budget cuts, single prices and pausing investments that are not “essential”, among others. The measure can have a great impact on tourism, which is in a serious crisis due to the lack of visitors. (Blow to tourism: Cuba declares itself in a war economy).

One of the investments that are considered “essential” has been tourism, as analyzed by Cuban economist Pedro Monreal, who pointed out in X that “the most striking thing” has been the intention to “postpone and even paralyze investments that are not essential.” And he emphasized that “without investment there is neither growth nor development, and until now the “essential” investments have been those in tourism. Will they continue?” analyzed Monreal, as reported by El País.