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HAVANA — A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Cuba on Sunday, after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that have left many on the island reeling. The rumbling was felt across the eastern stretch of Cuba, including in bigger cities like Santiago de Cuba. The earthquake comes during another tough stretch for Cuba. First, it was hit by island-wide blackouts stretching on for days, a product of the island’s energy crisis. The blackouts and wider discontent among many struggling to get by has stoked small protests across the island.

Persons: Yolanda Tabío, hadn’t, “, ”, Rafael Organizations: United States Geological Survey, Residents, Associated Press Locations: HAVANA, Cuba, Bartolomé Masó, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago, Cuba’s

☆ 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of eastern Cuba
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Michael Rios | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Cuba on Sunday, causing material damage in several regions as the island continues to recover from widespread blackouts and the impact of two hurricanes over the past few weeks. The municipality of Pilón has suffered “a lot of damage,” according to Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of the National Seismological Service of Cuba. Residents in eastern Cuba told Reuters that the tremor was as powerful as any they’ve felt before. In other occasions, we’ve felt the earthquake but not as strong as now,” Griselda Fernandez said. The quake was also felt in the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Holguin and Guantánamo, where the deadly Hurricane Oscar struck last month.

Persons: Miguel Díaz, Canel, Enrique Diego Arango Arias, “, haven’t, ”, we’ve, ” Griselda Fernandez, Oscar, Rafael, shockwaves Organizations: CNN, United States Geological Survey, National Seismological Service, Facebook, Reuters, Santiago de Cuba, US, Tsunami Warning Locations: Cuba, Bartolomé, Granma Province, Pilón, Santiago de, Holguin, Guantánamo, Havana, Florida, Miami

☆ Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed six
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"The country has completely halted," said homemaker Mayde Quiñones, 55, who cares for her mother-in-law, who is in her 80s. The prolonged nationwide blackout that followed a massive outage Thursday night was part of countrywide energy problems that led to the largest protests in Cuba in almost 30 years, in July 2021. The Cuban government on state television Monday night said that it's producing 1300 megawatts when peak demand can hit 3 gigawatts. He said that Oscar would bring "an additional inconvenience" to Cuba's recovery since it would affect key Cuban power plants, such as Felton in the city of Holguín, and Renté in Santiago de Cuba. The blackout was considered to be Cuba's worst since Hurricane Ian hit the island as a Category 3 storm in 2022 and damaged power installations.

Persons: Hurricane Oscar, Miguel Díaz, Canel, Mayde Quiñones, Karine Jean, Pierre, it's, Juan Estrada, hasn't, Vicente de la O Levy, Oscar, Felton, Antonio Guiteras, Ian, haven't Organizations: Hurricane, Cuban, Authorities, Energy Locations: Cuba, San Antonio, Sur, U.S, Europe, United States, Havana, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba

Havana CNN —Cuba’s electrical grid shut down on Friday, putting the country into a blackout after the failure of one of the island’s major power plants, according to its energy ministry. In a statement on X, the ministry said “the failure” of the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant caused “the total disconnection of the National Electrical System” from 11 a.m. This week, Cuba’s increasingly energy-strapped government called for draconian measures to save power, including telling many workers to stay home. Millions of people on the communist-run island have been left without power over the last several days as the aging Cuban electrical grid repeatedly collapsed. The Cuban Electric Union has also reported that 37 power generation plants are out of service due to lack of fuel.

Persons: Antonio Guiteras, Manuel Marrero Cruz, ”, Marrero, Vicente de la O Levy, Mariel, Santiago Organizations: Havana CNN, National, Cuban, Energy, Mines, Cuban Electric Union, Ministry of Energy, Santiago de Cuba, CNN, Español Locations: Havana, Cuba, Matanzas, Santiago de

☆ Cuba sees rare protests amid power cuts and food shortages
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Patrick Oppmann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Demonstrators took to the streets in at least four cities on Sunday to complain about hours-long power cuts and increasing food scarcity. The island has seen frequent power cuts and shortages of food, fuel, and medicine since the Covid-19 pandemic, prompting Cubans to flee to the United States in record numbers. US diplomats said Sunday they were monitoring the protests and called on the Cuban government to listen to the demonstrators. The Cuban government, which typically does not allow organized dissent, did not say how many protesters had been arrested. After island-wide demonstrations in the summer of 2021, more than 1,000 Cubans were put on trial and convicted of rising up against the communist-run government, according to human rights groups.

Persons: Miguel Diaz, Canel, Fidel Castro’s, Diaz Organizations: CNN, Cuban, country’s Communist Party, Twitter Locations: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, United States, Miami’s, Cuban, Havana

[1/3] FILE PHOTO:Surgeon Rosanna Curinga walks out of Locri Hospital, in Locri, southern Italy, August 27, 2023. Italy's health ministry declined to provide further details. People are leaving Italy because of it," said Professor Foad Aodi, head of the Italian association of foreign doctors. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the failings of the national health service in Italy, which suffered the second-highest death toll from the pandemic in Europe after Britain. Higher salaries and better working conditions elsewhere are also proving a lure for Italy's own medical professionals, Italy's health unions say, exacerbating staff shortages.

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"We understand there is a crisis, and the need for banking, but this is our money," Hernandez said. Her business had already adopted electronic banking but she often needs quick access to cash to pay for emergencies on job sites, she added. Rodriguez said he and many other entrepreneurs began using electronic banking long before the new measures were announced to comply with tax laws that have evolved with the growing private sector. But for many smaller businesses and mom-and-pop stores in Cuba, the formalities of doing business, like paying taxes, remain novel concepts, he said. Cuban officials have said the new banking measures are necessary for transparency, to assure transactions are recorded and taxes are paid.

Persons: Alberto Quinones, Yulieta Hernandez, Hernandez, Fidel Castro, Leonardo Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Ronald Venero, Nelson Acosta, Anett Rios, Carlos Carrillo, Dave Sherwood, Marc Frank, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: HAVANA, Cuba, Cuban, Havana, Santiago de Cuba

☆ Cuba's fuel shortages due to supplier nations not delivering, says president
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People wait in line for the arrival of a fuel tank truck in Havana, Cuba, April 14, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiniHAVANA, April 14 (Reuters) - Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the island's ongoing gasoline shortages were caused by countries contracted to supply the fuel not complying with their requirements due to "a complex energy situation." Besides car owners, truckers, taxi drivers, tourists and public transport have all been hit by the shortages. Diaz-Canel underlined that the shortages were a result of "non-compliance" from the supplier nations, rather than inefficiencies or issues within the country's energy institutions. Venezuela, one of Havana's political allies, has for decades supplied Cuba with oil from its state oil firm PDVSA under a cooperation agreement signed in 2000.

☆ Massive forest fires rage on in eastern Cuba
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Nelson Acosta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HAVANA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Forest fires raged on in Cuba's eastern region on Monday, inching toward more populated ground more than a week after sparking near a national park. More than 2,000 hectares of forest, including plantations and coffee crops, have been devoured by the flames, authorities said, as firefighters, park employees and soldiers battled the blaze. The fires have moved away from the Mensura-Piloto National Park and toward the province of Santiago de Cuba, home of the populous city of the same name, according to officials. The latest fires add to the dozens in January, which authorities said was a higher-than-average figure. Pinar del Rio and Artemisa, in western Cuba, and Camaguey and Holguin, in the central-eastern region, were the areas most affected.

PINAR DEL RÍO, Cuba — Brigades of electrical workers were focused Wednesday on restoring electricity to the western region of Cuba, where Hurricane Ian made landfall the day before, leaving the entire country without power. Crews were working to bring power back to the Pinar del Río Province, where the eye of the then-Category 3 storm entered Cuba, and the municipality of Artemisa, where Ian's gusty winds knocked power out. In Pinar del Río, a region known for its agriculture and a source of produce for much of Cuba, crops such as rice, yucca and beans were lost. Yamil Lage / AFP - Getty ImagesCuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said damages in Pinar del Río "are great, although it has not yet been possible to account for it." Hurricane winds bent countless pieces of metals used as roofs all over Cuba, particularly in Pinar del Río.

☆ United Airlines seeks to resume U.S. flights to Cuba
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidWASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - United Airlines (UAL.O) said on Wednesday it is working to resume flights to Cuba later this year that it suspended in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. United previously flew seven flights weekly to Havana from its Houston and Newark hubs. United said given the challenges it is concerned it cannot resume flights by an Oct. 31 USDOT deadline. That is on top of the typical six daily American Airlines flights and three JetBlue flights weekdays to Havana from the Florida airports. In July, American Airlines received permission to resume service to some smaller Cuban airports.

☆ U.S. OKs new American Airlines, JetBlue flights to Havana
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterA view of the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, September 25, 2019. That is on top of the typical six daily American Airlines flights and three JetBlue flights weekdays to Havana from the Florida airports. In June, the department lifted a series of restrictions on flights to Cuba, including ending a prohibition on U.S. airline flights to smaller Cuban airports outside Havana. The previous administration under President Donald Trump barred passenger airline flights to smaller Cuban airports. In July, American Airlines received permission to resume service to some smaller Cuban airports.

Ţara comunistă este singura din America Latină care are în prezent cinci vaccinuri în dezvoltare. În campania ce va începe de luni la Havana şi în provinciile Santiago de Cuba (sud) şi Matanzas (centru) vor fi folosite două cele mai avansate vaccinuri. Aceste două vaccinuri, Abdala şi Soberana 2, se administrează în trei doze. "Credem că vom putea vaccina 22% din populaţie până în iunie, 33% până în iulie şi 70% până în august", a declarat ministrul cubanez al sănătăţii Jose Angel Portal. Primele vaccinări vor avea şi rol de testare la scară largă, în speranţa că aceasta va permite omologarea acestor vaccinuri în iunie, a precizat el.

Persons: Olga Lidia Jacobo Organizations: Portal Locations: America Latină, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, creştere

☆ Cuba testează cel de-al doilea vaccin al său anti-COVID-19 pe 124.000 de angajaţi sanitari
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Cuba a început luni să vaccineze 124.000 de angajaţi în domeniul sanitar cu Abdala, al doilea vaccin candidat al său împotriva COVID-19, într-un test la scară largă în rândul populaţiilor cu risc, potrivit autorităţilor locale, relatează AFP. "Studiul de intervenţie controlat cu vaccinul Abdala a fost aprobat de autoritatea de reglementare cubaneză (Cecmed) sâmbătă, 27 martie, iar astăzi (luni) am început vaccinarea", a declarat pentru televiziunea cubaneză directorul pentru Ştiinţe şi Inovaţie al grupului farmaceutic de stat BioCubaFarma, Rolando Pérez. Aceste două studii, efectuate pe voluntari şi fără placebo (toţi primesc direct vaccinul), vor continua până în luna mai. Obiectivul este de a demonstra eficienţa la scară largă a ambelor formule chiar înainte de a primi undă verde, a explicat Rolando Pérez. Guvernul cubanez intenţionează să-şi lanseze campania de vaccinare în iunie, cu primul vaccin anti-coronavirus dezvoltat şi produs în America Latină, scrie agerpres.ro.

Persons: Rolando Pérez Organizations: Autorităţile Locations: Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, Bayamo, ţării, Tokyo, America Latină

☆ (foto) Cuba în culori. Tânăra fotografă, Helene Havard, a realizat mai multe fotografii de pe străzile din Havana
▼ + stars: | 2019-01-31 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Tânăra fotografă, Helene Havard, a realizat mai multe fotografii de pe străzile din HavanaTânăra fotografă, Helene Havard, a realizat o serie de fotografii din timpul călătoriei sale în Cuba. Cuba este o țară insulară din nordul Americii Centrale. Se află la confluența Mării Caraibelor, Golfului Mexic și Oceanului Atlantic. La nord se află SUA și Bahamas, la vest – Mexic, la sud – Insulele Cayman și Jamaica, iar la sud-est – Haiti. Cuba este un stat socialist, sau o republică parlamentară condusă de un partid comunist, care deține monopolul puterii politice.

Persons: Helene Havard Organizations: Havana ., Capitala Locations: Cuba, Havana, Havana . Cuba, Americii Centrale, Caraibelor, Golfului Mexic, Atlantic, SUA, Bahamas, Mexic, Insulele Cayman, Jamaica, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, comunist

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