It’s a responsibility of the island’s leadership to be accountable for their actions that influence a population’s mental health and wellness
By S.E. Lewinski*
HAVANA TIMES – Another Day in Paradise, but for who? The tourist, the political elite, or the 11 million people on the prison Island (A name coined by Cuba’s young). Some 250,000 people escaping the confines of the island in 2022 is surely a message of significance to the world. It’s as if people were voting with their feet.
If life was so wonderful in paradise, why would people sell their belongings, risk a foot journey across several countries, or 90 miles of dangerous waters in homemade boats? It’s an escape from a land that has little medicine, clean water, food, electricity, gasoline, etc. In addition, increasing poverty with inflation and devaluation of the peso bears its weight on the risks people will take to escape.
Also consider with poverty, is the camouflaged impact on mental health and wellness. “Poverty in childhood and among adults can cause poor mental health through social stresses, stigma, and trauma,” state Lee Knifton and Greig Inglis in their study in
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