Hurricane Oscar was crossing the island's eastern coast with winds and heavy rain, leaving at least six dead after a night that saw protests of several dozen people each in urban neighborhoods.
Many Cuba ns waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day.'s capital remained largely paralyzed on Monday and the rest of the island braced for the fourth night of abefore crossing the island's eastern coast as a tropical storm Monday with winds and heavy rain, leaving at least six dead after a night that saw protests by several dozen people in urban neighborhoods like Santos Suárez and central Havana.
The Cuban government has a low tolerance for civil disobedience and President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned on national television Sunday that "we're not going to allow any vandalism, or let anyone disturb people's tranquility." The Cuban government and its allies blame the United States' 62-year-old trade embargo on the island for its economic problems but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that the Cuban government's "long-term mismanagement of its economic policy and resources has certainly increased the hardship of people in Cuba."
Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said in a news conference he hoped that more reliable electricity will be restored by Monday or Tuesday morning but classes remained closed through at least Thursday. Many of Havana's 2 million people resorted to cooking with improvised wood stoves on the streets before their food went bad in refrigerators.The failure of the Antonio Guiteras plant on Friday was the latest problem with energy distribution in a country where electricity has been restricted and rotated among different regions at different times. The status of Cuba's other power plants was unclear.Some Cubans like Rosa Rodríguez had been without electricity for four days.
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