(11 Sep 2025)
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Havana, Cuba – 10 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Havana’s skyline and people sitting on the beachfront
2. City skyline
3. People walking through the dark streets
4. People sitting on the sidewalk
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Imelda Bosque, resident:
“There are very few expectations because we have very little hope. They don’t give us answers. They don’t give us solutions to our problems. What can I say? I have no words, but here we are waiting for a miracle from God.”
6. Various of Isabel Serrano cooking with her daughters
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Isabel Serrano, resident:
“I hope the electricity comes back on sometime tonight. But we can’t despair, because if we do, it’s worse. We have to be very calm, little by little, we’ll slowly achieve what we want.”
8. Power stations on the street
9. Various of people playing dominoes on the street
10. Antonio Avila, resident, mixing dominoes UPSOUND (Spanish): "We’re here waiting for the power to come in because they say it’s going to take a while. We really don’t know. There’s no power, no instructions nor information.”
11. Various of people, streets, city
STORYLINE:
Electricity was already being supplied to basic services such as hospitals and food factories, as well as water pumping, by Wednesday night in Cuba’s capital of Havana, where some 193,000 customers had access, according to the official website Cubadebate.
Some others complained they were still without energy.
“There are very few expectations because we have very little hope. They don’t give us answers. They don’t give us solutions to our problems," said Havana resident Imelda Bosque.
Traffic lights were out and many social and cultural activities were suspended. Areas to the east, such as Guanabo, Marianao, and Cabañas, had electricity in the afternoon, and areas of Vedado and Centro Habana had power in the evening, according to AP.
Internet service nationwide was particularly slow and experienced intermittent downtime in some areas.
The power outage also affected many homes on the island, including in the capital, for cooking, as natural gas is very limited, as well as for pumping water, which requires electricity.
A total blackout hit Cuba on Wednesday, the latest in a series of outages blamed on aging infrastructure and fuel shortages at power plants.
It was the second island-wide outage this year, with three other blackouts reported late last year.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines said on social platform X that the latest outage could be tied to a malfunctioning thermoelectric plant, although the investigation is ongoing.
The ministry said crews were working to restore power to the island of roughly 10 million people.
Earlier this week, an outage hit Cuba’s eastern region, leaving people from Las Tunas to Guantánamo in the dark for several hours.
In February, the government suspended classes and work activities for two days given a shortage in electricity generation.
There is a severe economic and energy supply crisis in Cuba. It has worsened in recent years due to U.S. sanctions intended to put pressure on the island to change its political model.
The sanctions have prevented the Caribbean nation from having sufficient foreign currency to buy fuel or repair its aging thermoelectric plants, many of which have been operating for more than 30 years.
AP Video shot by Ariel Fernández and Milexsy Durán
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