Only the few people with a petrol generator at home or in the office have access to the current, in this country of 11.2 million inhabitants.
Le Monde
An island plunged black. Cuba no longer had an electric service Tuesday September 27 in the evening due to a generalized power cut due to the damage on its network caused by Hurricane Ian, announced the state company Union Eléctrica.
The country is “without electrical service”, tweeted the company, explaining this national failure by the passage of category 3 hurricane which ravaged the west of the island, without making victims, before to set the course towards Florida.
“There is currently no electricity service anywhere in the country,” said Lázaro Guerra, Technical Director of Union Eléctrica, on Cuban television.
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The Ministry of Energy and Mines said it was an “exceptional situation”, the solution of which “requires great precision”, and that the electricity service would be gradually restored.
While the effects of the hurricane were still felt on the coast, in the night, the locals walked in the streets guiding themselves with their mobile phone, and some houses were lit by candles or pocket lamps .
Ian hit hardly Pinar del Rio, the most west province of the island, in the early hours of the morning, causing large material damage to it, as well as in the neighboring cities of Artemisa and Havana , where 2.1 million people live.