Nearly 10m Cubans have been without electricity since the island’s energy grid collapsed on October 18th. Authorities were quick to place the blame on technical snafus. Small outages began a day prior,

Cuba's power grid collapsed on Sunday evening for the fourth time in two days, plunging much of the island nation into darkness as Hurricane Oscar made landfall in eastern Cuba as a Category 1 storm.

The repeated failure of the power grid and a hurricane that has swamped the island’s eastern end has many Cubans fed up, posing a challenge to the Communist government.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel urged calm and warned against vandalism from citizens angry at the loss of power over three days so far.

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure.