Several hundred Cubans took to the streets of Santiago de Cuba, the island's second city, to express their anger against long power cuts. "People were shouting 'food and electricity'," a resident of the town, located 800 kilometers east of Havana, told AFP.
Electricity came back later in the day and “two trucks of rice” were delivered, explains this witness. Since the beginning of March, Cuba has been facing a new wave of outages due to maintenance work on the Antonio Güiteras thermoelectric plant.