Cuba’s prolonged blackouts force residents to restructure daily life around brief power bursts
Cuba is experiencing extended blackouts that have become so severe that residents organise their lives around brief periods of electricity.
Cuba is grappling with prolonged blackouts that have fundamentally disrupted daily life in Havana. Power is now supplied only in short bursts, sometimes lasting just 20 minutes and arriving at irregular hours, including the middle of the night. Residents have had to restructure their routines around these unpredictable windows of electricity.
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As blackouts prolong, life in Cuba revolves around bursts of electricity
A 20-minute burst of electricity is a small miracle in Havana nowadays — a miracle that sometimes comes at 3am.