In Havana
"We are hungry. Electricity and food. Freedom."
Thousands of residents of Santiago de Cuba, the second city of the Caribbean island, took to the streets on Sunday afternoon to demand bread, but also an end to the endless “apagones” (power cuts).
"I can not stand it anymore.
I live in a small town a few dozen kilometers from Santiago.
Power cuts there sometimes last fifteen hours.
This happens partly during the night and the mosquitoes, which are enormous, take advantage of it, because we can no longer use, due to lack of electricity, neither fan nor air conditioning for those who have it,” confides
a mother of family.
Just as much as the "Apagonians", the catastrophic food situation in the eastern regions of the island despairs the Cubans.
The inhabitants of Oriente (the east of the country) suffer from hunger.
With the never-ending economic crisis, the Cuban peso (CUP) has lost all its value.
The dollar was trading on January 1…
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