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Havana Nights Fill with Pot-Banging Protests over Blackouts

The energy crisis that afflicts the Island comes to the surrounding areas of the Casino Deportivo, where villas with gardens are plentiful.

“I’m not good at just asking for money”: one draws, another sings, and the third seeks out foreigners to “practice languages.”

September marks the return to classes throughout the island. The beginning of an authentic torture for many Cuban parents.

The metal boxes are “an alternative in the face of the shortage of essential building materials” to ease the housing crisis.

In the mecca of popular commerce in Havana, most everything can be found, including the buying and selling of dollars.

Cubans have not received rice through their ration books for months and are asking since when imports became news.

Cellphone theft is ever more common in today’s Cuba and contributes to the normalization of other crimes.

This vicious circle reduces production, hurts household economies, and ultimately worsens shortages in the domestic market.

In Cuba, there is hardly any electricity. That is a fact. But the workers in this field also lack the means to perform their duties.

Cuban authorities have extended exceptional tariff benefits, established to ease the shortage of basic necessities and the energy crisis…