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The Oil Crisis Reduces Nightlight in Cuba to 50% and Aggravates Blackouts
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed “extreme concern” with the deepening of the socio-economic crisis in Cuba. Volker Turk warned of increasingly serious effects on the human rights of the population. The spokesman Marta Hurtado stated that the lack of oil poses a risk to the availability of essential services in [...]
The lack of oil, US sanctions and the loss of international allies leave the island with daily power outages, cancelled flights and limited basic services The post Cuba faces an unprecedented energy blackout first appeared on Junior Report.
According to data from the Electric Union, the collapse of the supply roughly coincides with the capture of Cuba's main ally, Venezuela.
“Is there anyone trapped in the ascentooor?” he yells, with his cell phone lamp in his hand, Heidi Martínez, the administrator of an 18-story building in the neighborhood of Alamar, on the outskirts of Havana. Martínez, 53, is neither technical nor mechanical. But she has become an expert in manually opening the elevator of this block of houses. She does it several times a week when a neighbor gets caught by the daily power cuts. “We’ve already …
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