Power failure in Cuba: Havana recovers chaos and storm!

Power failure in Cuba: Havana recovers chaos and storm!

Three days after a nationwide power failure in Cuba, light slowly returns to the apartments! According to the Minister of Energy Vicente de la O, almost 90 percent of the power supply are restored in the west of the Caribbean island, especially in the capital Havana. The collapse of the outdated power grid was carried out on Friday morning and led to a drastic decline in electricity to just 700 megawatts - this corresponds to only a quarter of the normal need before the failure. Many households had to struggle with hours of power failures, while the country has been faced with one of the worst economic crises since the 1959 revolution.

In addition, the population of the island hits the storm of the hurricane "Oscar", who looked for the coast at the weekend. There were severe floods in cities such as Baracoa, Imías and Maisí, and around 1,000 houses were damaged. Due to the natural disaster, the government has hired not urgently needed activities by Wednesday to give priority to the aid measures. Several residents had to be evacuated from flooded areas, while the population had to survive the time of suffering without electricity. Further information on this provides www.radioenneperuhr.de .