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Old Havana Restoration: Will They Also Fix Our Houses?

The Havana Historian’s Office “no longer works for the people, all they want is to make money,” says Raydel a pedicab driver.

The Coast Guard says it rescued three of the asylum seekers, while four others managed to swim to shore on Florida’s Stock Island.

Cuba’s state power company restored electricity to some lucky consumers in the different provinces, it said on Wednesday.

This time it is Hurricane Ian, but the people of Pinar del Rio remember Gustav, Ike, Isidore, Lily, among others.

A small number of Cubans are generating their own energy and even sell to the national grid. So far Cuba is barely using its solar potential.

“The National Electric System faces an exceptional situation, zero electricity generation and no power in the entire country…”

Communication with our writers in Pinar del Rio, Pedro Pablo Morejón and Fabiana del Valle, has not yet been possible…

Conditions in the Isle of Youth, Pinar del Rio & the rest of western Cuba are expected to deteriorate later tonight and especially on Tuesday

As if food and medicine shortages, and constant blackouts were not enough, now western Cuba is facing the imminent visit of Hurricane Ian.

The government says a total of 66.87% of those who cast their ballots on Sunday voted Yes, equaling 46.6% of the 8,447,467 qualified voters.