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Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk to seek relief from crippling blackouts and summer heat
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WBAL Baltimore News
HAVANA (AP) — Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba ‘s capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana’s famous seaside boulevard.
Sunday night marked the sixth islandwide blackout since Trump administration effectively cut Cuba off from oil — its main energy source — in January.
The energy grid collapses have left people like Ríos García with fewer options to get by as the U.S. maintains its pressure campaign against the communist-led government.
While some like Ríos García have slept on the boulevard, others struggle to get some rest on balconies and front porches.
“Just when we start hoping (the energy grid) wouldn’t collapse again, there it goes again,” she said.