Cuba’s grid operator has restored intermittent energy after the nationwide electrical grid collapsed on 16 March. It comes amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already struggling gas, meals, and drugs shortages.
A number of small teams of residents throughout Havana have in current days banged pots in protest in opposition to prolonged blackouts. The sequence of widespread outages that final for hours or days sparked a uncommon violent protest in northern Cuba on 14 March, the place a constructing was set ablaze.
President Donald Trump has in current months hinted at a potential takeover of the island and through a White Home occasion in early March mentioned the island was “able to fall”.
The BBC’s Cuba correspondent Will Grant reviews from the island.