Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.

Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”

A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.

    • AmidFuror
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      The wrong type of asylum seekers?

      You can presumably understand where they’re coming from, even if voting for the party that hates people from “shithole countries” is not in their interest.

  • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    So, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe we could send a cvn down to help? Think 1 could power the island itself.

    Like, as a gesture of good will?

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