Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed six
A small town in far eastern Cuba is recovering from flooding that killed at least six people after Hurricane Oscar crossed ...
El País in English3h
The energy crisis paralyzing Cuba: ‘There will be no change in the electricity sector until the govermment changes the economic model’
Experts attribute the collapse to the island’s economic emergency: it relies on imports it cannot afford and on trading ...
Canadian Dimension4h
In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
Canada has long profited from West Africa’s gold resources. Every year, Canadian firms extract billions in revenue from the ...
The Economist5h
Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility
Nearly 10m Cubans have been without electricity since the island’s energy grid collapsed on October 18th. Authorities were ...
Foreign Affairs15h
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft ...
WLRN17h
'Hopeless': Cubans here register blackout despair from Cubans there — if they can reach them
With Cuba still in near total blackout, Cuban-Americans are having trouble making contact with family and friends on the ...
A Nationwide Blackout, Now a Hurricane. How Much Can Cuba Endure?
The repeated failure of the power grid and a hurricane that has swamped the island’s eastern end has many Cubans fed up, ...
Cuba plunged into crisis by prolonged power blackouts
“The Cuban government and Communist party are facing the worst crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, both ...