Havana. After spending a second night of almost total blackout, Cuba prepares this Sunday in a race against time for the imminent impact of the hurricane Oscar in the east of the island.
Oscar It is moving through the Caribbean in a west-southwest direction and is moving at about 19 kilometers per hour, with winds of up to 130 kilometers per hour. At 12:00 GMT it was located about 185 km from Guantánamo, according to the latest report from the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The hurricane warning remains in effect for the southeast of the Bahamas and the northern coast of the Cuban provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo, in the east.
Oscar arrives in a Cuba in the midst of an energy crisis, and which spent its second night without electricity due to a breakdown on Friday in the main thermoelectric plant that caused the network to collapse.
President Miguel Díaz Canel reported on Saturday night on network Oscar“.
“The energy situation” of the island is also being addressed, he added.
The presidency of Cuba declared on Saturday in in this case of a “subsystem of the West.”
The country was left without electricity starting at 11:00 a.m. local time on Friday, after the unexpected shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, the main one on the island and located in Matanzas (west).
Difficulty after difficulty
“This blackout makes life very difficult for Cubans. The situation is very difficult, but I try to stay calm, because there is already too much stress in this country,” Yaima Valladares, a 28-year-old dancer, told AFP.
Housewife Isabel Rodríguez, 72, complains of not being able to sleep. “How are our lives not going to get messed up, if we have nothing, not even the water engines can start,” he said.
Only hotels, hospitals and some private homes that have their own small generation plants had electricity.
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