Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk amid crippling heat, finding reliable information adds to difficulties
Cubans sleep outside on Monday, recovering from the sixth islandwide blackout this year, as the nation remains in free-fall after the Trump administration effectively cut it off from oil in January. For Americans, reliable information about events in Cuba is becoming more difficult to find. AP video photography shot by Ariel Fernandez
The Associated Press
Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba ‘s capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana’s famous seaside boulevard.
The 30-year-old construction worker ended up curling up with other Cubans on the city’s sea wall, the Malecón, in a desperate attempt to escape the suffocating summer heat during yet another islandwide blackout.
Sunday night marked the sixth islandwide blackout since Trump administration effectively cut Cuba off from oil — its main energy source — in January. The move plunged the disinformation and endemically crisis-stricken country into free-fall. While authorities on Monday said they were working to get the power back on, much of the island still had no electricity.
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