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Protests break out in Havana as Cuba struggles to restore electricity
HAVANA: Scattered protests broke out across Havana on Tuesday (Jul 7) evening, with residents banging pots, honking horns and shouting "turn on the lights" as millions of Cubans remained without power amid a six-month-long US fuel blockade.Cuba experienced a nationwide outage on Monday — its third this year — but while authorities said most of the country had been reconnected to the island's grid by late Tuesday, many remained in the dark and without electricity as the island doesn't have enough fuel.The country's grid operator UNE said it had reconnected the grid from Pinar del Rio, in far western Cuba, to Holguin in the east. Santiago de Cuba, the island's second-largest city, remained disconnected and without power, authorities said.The US in January cut off Cuba's fuel supply, then imp
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