Blackouts reshape daily life in Havana apartment complex

Cuba's deepening energy crisis has forced residents of Havana's largest apartment complexes to abandon the routines of modern life, with some enduring blackouts lasting up to 16 hours daily and families cooking over charcoal fires in their kitchens as the government's fuel shortage reaches a breaking point. The cascading failures—triggering water outages when pumps lose power and trapping residents in sweltering high-rises without air conditioning—reveal how quickly infrastructure collapse can unravel urban society, offering a cautionary glimpse into vulnerability that development economists say could foreshadow similar crises across the Caribbean and Central America as climate change strains already fragile power grids. What began as a temporary

Roanoke Times·Jul 25