Havana, May 20, 2026 (AFP) - Lights out for Cuban students as blockade bites

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2026-05-20

It's the middle of the night in Havana, but Alejandro Benitez is just getting down to work. The power is back on for the first time in 15 hours and Benitez, a fourth-year architecture student, needs to get his assignment in fast before the electricity cuts out again. 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 -......

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