Cuban students clamored on Wednesday for further concessions to roll back a rate hike on internet data, saying a decision on Monday to offer them discounted access did not go far enough.
Daily blackouts averaging four hours or more have become the new normal across Cuba's capital of Havana, an unsettling sign of a still-unresolved energy crisis as the sultry Caribbean summer sets in.
Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed late on Friday, the country's Energy and Mines ministry said, leading to widespread blackouts in the capital Havana and across the Caribbean island nation.
For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has become the go-to fuel for cooking due to frequent blackouts from the island's failing power grid.
Cuba shut schools and told non-essential workers to stay home on Friday as a major power plant failure strained the electrical grid, causing widespread blackouts across the crisis-ridden island.
World leaders and U.S. politicians reacted to news that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, has died at age 100.
