Power returns to Havana, but several provinces still have no electricity. This is the worst crisis the country has gone through in the last thirty years.
Time to take stock in Cuba after the passage of storm Oscar.
According to the authorities, at least six people were killed.
The storm made landfall on Sunday evening, at a time when the island had been facing a giant power outage since Friday.
Mayde Quiñones, housewife: “I wouldn’t risk buying anything because everything is damaged. There are no credit cards, there are no banks, there is nothing, the country is at a standstill. »
The country’s main thermoelectric power plant is slowly restarting.
Power returns to the capital, but several provinces are still plunged into darkness.
The outage sparked protests and Cuban president promises repression.
Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban President: “We want to ratify that the revolution will never tolerate this type of behavior and that all will be prosecuted with the rigor that the revolutionary laws envisage. »
The giant blackout comes after recurring power outages, inflation and shortages of food and medicine.
Cuba is going through the worst crisis in thirty years.
