Countrywide blackout after Hurricane Ian was the latest disaster straining Cuba’s already disintegrating infrastructure
Yamile Sánchez leaned from her colonial-era window into the street in central Havana, a large pile of avocados visible behind her. “The damage used to be sorted out much faster,” she said. “Even when the storms were worse.”
The avocados, dusty green in contrast to Sanchez’s worn blue shutters, each had a bruise on one side. They had fallen during the passage of Hurricane Ian last week, as had Cuba’s entire electricity grid.
She was selling the windfall, avocados being the only thing cheap and available on the Caribbean island right now.
