It’s not just the US that has been thrown into disarray by Hurricane Ian.
Last night, Cubans took to the streets to bang pots and protest across several neighbourhoods in the capital Havana as the country entered its third day of blackouts following the seismic storm.
The massive storm caused Cuba’s grid to collapse earlier this week, knocking out power to the entire island of 11 million people, flattening homes and obliterating fields.
For some Cubans – already reeling from shortages of food, fuel and medicine – the prolonged blackout was the last straw.
Jorge Luis Cruz, of Havana’s El Cerro neighborhood, stood in his doorway on Thursday evening banging a metal pot and shouting in anger.
Dozens of others on side streets around his home could be heard banging pots from terraces and rooftops in the dark. “This isn’t working, enough of this,” Cruz told Reuters. “All my food is rotten. Why? Because we don’t have electricity.”
Cruz said his family did not want him to take to the street out of fear he would be hauled off to jail. “Let them take me,” he said.
Source: BBC