How Cubans Are Surviving Endless Blackouts
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As Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens under the U.S. oil blockade, elderly Cubans are being forced to: cook with charcoal and sit in the dark as they wait for the lights to return. #cuba #blackout #sanctio...

Duration - 1:58

[a video on Peertube about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

As Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens under the U.S. oil blockade, elderly Cubans are being forced to: cook with charcoal and sit in the dark as they wait for the lights to return.

  • mrmisses@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 days ago

    I didn’t watch but why don’t they do like Palestine (or was it some other middle eastern country with power issues due to bombing) and go solar?

    • Sineljora@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      20 days ago

      Good suggestion, and they are because China is generously providing them solar panels. But they have to sneak them in on boats because the American terrorist regime are boarding and killing innocent people in the waters.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      Mostly due to the economic embargo. They have a very limited foreign trade. They also don’t have much money to invest in large infrastructures cuttently and unless the transition is cheaper then the operational cost of current infrastructure, it will be very hard for them to transition.