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Scarce food and stifling homes: sputtering grid pushes Cuba nearer collapse
Three power cuts in a weekend born of state’s penury have caused nationwide struggles and shortages
Dusk has become a particularly frenetic time in Havana, as Cuba prepared for a third night potentially without electricity after repeated failed attempts to restart the national grid.
Long queues formed for bread in the capital earlier in the day. The previous night, people had emerged from humid homes to search for food, drink, news. “What’s the point of staying at home?” asked Alejandro Hernandez outside a bar in the neighbourhood of Vedado.
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