Energy crisis

"We want freedom, not power": the lights return during a massive pot-banging protest in Centro Habana

Cubans pay 750 pesos to travel, and the driver leaves them stranded with an unusual explanation

A 12-story building in Santa Clara has been without electricity or water for almost 5 days: "How do you carry a bucket of water up 12 floors?"

"That money could have fed Cuban children": U.S. criticizes the expensive debate on Cuba at the UN

From surviving to resigning: photographer reflects on the "normalization" of the crisis in Cuba

The UNE reconnects the system, but Cuba continues to experience massive blackouts due to a deficit of over 2,000 MW

Without light, without food, and without fear: Havana continues to take to the streets against the regime

This is what the Malecón in Havana looked like during the nationwide blackout in Cuba

"I couldn't stand seeing her like this": A Cuban worked hard so that his mother could have this in Cuba and give her a better life

Luis Alberto García to the "babies up there": "They are only looking to cling to power and their privileges for 62,000 millennia."

A Canadian reveals what he experienced during the blackout in Cuba: "You don't receive real information until hours later."

The U.S. tells the regime to its face: the real blockade is the one you impose on the people

Bruno Rodríguez tries to silence the U.S. representative at the UN while denouncing blackouts and political prisoners

They plan to synchronize the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant on July 9 following maintenance

Is GAESA falling? Elías Amor explains everything

Havana Electric Company restores less than half of the circuits after massive blackout

Cuba remains in a general blackout nearly 24 hours after the collapse of the National Electric System (SEN)

After the massive blackout, Marc Caputo recalls that Axios warned about a possible collapse in Cuba in July

Cubana de Aviación announces an additional flight to Nueva Gerona, but with a condition for booking

Díaz-Canel praises UNE workers and again attributes the national blackout to the U.S

"What a country!": The UNE announces microsystems throughout Cuba following the seventh total blackout in 18 months

Four Bengal tigers are born in Cuba amid the worst crisis the zoo is facing

Cuba and its 'reforms': real transition or bargaining chip?

Mass blackout: Cuba reports a complete disconnection of the National Electric System

Cubans take to the streets in Jaimanitas to protest after more than 24 hours of blackout

Desperate Cuban due to the crisis: "I'm selling my house because I can no longer call it home."

Young communist blames Trump for blackouts in Cuba and sparks a wave of criticism on social media

Leonardo Padura: With the reforms, the Cuban state will retain "the most important and efficient of its industries, that of control."

Protests erupt over water shortages in Mantilla: residents block a road

Fuel shortages suffocate fishing in Sancti Spíritus and halve the catch

The regime relies on the Group of Internal Order as a key component of defense zones and territorial control in Cuba

Five arrested for theft of dielectric oil at pumping station in Guantánamo

Crisis and chaos: six fuel thefts under investigation at state entities in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus

Comedian Otto Ortiz jokes after 45 minutes of power: "Everything we are, we owe to socialism."

Record blackouts in Cuba: The UNE forecasts 2,230 MW of impact this Sunday during peak hours

Cuban people respond to Díaz-Canel after suggestion to bang pots "for our neighbors to the north"

Luis Alberto García reports 34 hours without electricity or water: "Don't make it so easy to not be revolutionary."

Santiago de Cuba is in the dark, but Enramadas lights up to "celebrate" the start of summer

Electricity restored at the Faculty of Medicine in Santiago de Cuba after students' pots-and-pans protest

Foreign students protest with pots and pans at the Faculty of Medicine in Santiago de Cuba after 24 hours without electricity

In a dark Cuba, the Latinoamericano stadium lights up for a nightclub until dawn

Cabaiguán refinery attempts to sustain production with residual crude from shut-down plants

They report the theft of energy equipment in Matanzas using the same modus operandi

From architectural icon to symbol of neglect: residents report that the Focsa is falling apart amid alleged corruption

CTE Antonio Guiteras stopped for 48 hours due to "cooling": "When did it heat up?"

State media blames the U.S. for the lack of supplies for cancer patients

Cuban woman reports a scam of 75,000 pesos in the purchase of a battery

Felton synchronizes with the SEN, but blackouts exceed 2,000 MW

Political scientist Roberto Veiga reports pressure from the regime for him to leave Cuba

At the limit: 11 thermoelectric units out of service worsen the forecast for power outages in Cuba this Saturday

Photovoltaic systems installed in telephone exchanges in Pinar del Río: a drop of energy in a sea of disconnection

Díaz-Canel to the protesters: "Bang your pots at the neighbors to the north, who are the ones keeping us in blackout."

The Cuban regime is betting on Chinese companies following new economic reforms

There is no let-up with the National Electric System: "High impact nationwide" due to multiple failures

"The Never-Ending Tale": the regime insists on its "social policies" while Cuba fades away

Granma is left in the dark: New disconnection from the National Electric System due to an emergency

Cuban photographer and entrepreneur: "No community deserves to have to reinvent itself every 24 hours."

From the "New Man" to the "Dead Man" in a dark country: the chilling sonnet of a Cuban poet

What is happening at Guiteras? Cuba's largest thermoelectric plant has collapsed again due to the same malfunction

Blackouts shorten the lives of people from Pine to a race of 120 minutes