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Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
More than 1.4 million students returned as schools faced shortages of fuel, teachers and uniforms, while parents were asked to help provide meals.
- On Tuesday, more than 10,000 schools across Cuba opened, welcoming an estimated 1.4 million children and more than 135,000 teachers despite severe shortages of fuel, instructors, and uniforms.
- Teacher coverage fell to 73% across the island, prompting Education Minister Naima Trujillo Barreto to reassign more than 3,000 educators from eastern provinces to Havana to maintain operations.
- School uniforms met only 12% of demand, leading Trujillo Barreto to allow students to wear "comfortable clothing" while requiring traditional red and blue kerchiefs.
- Families like the Barrosos rely on borrowed animals for transportation after thieves recently stole their horse, complicating school attendance amid power outages lasting more than 20 hours.
- Calling the reopening a "heroic act," Trujillo Barreto acknowledged the difficult environment for an island whose education system was once a crowning achievement of the 1959 revolution.
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