Alejandro Benitez a fourth-year Cuban architecture student, works during the night to try finish assignments that get delayed by incessant power outages
Desperate times call for desperate measures in crisis-hit Cuba, where a US fuel blockade -- part of a pressure campaign which Havana fears will culminate in a military intervention -- has aggravated an energy crisis, leaving people without power for up to 20 hours a day.
19 May 2026