Cuba continues to face a wave of natural disasters that are straining the island’s already fragile infrastructure and deepening economic hardships for its population.
Hurricane Rafael has left Cuba in a nationwide blackout after making landfall on Wednesday with winds reaching up to 185 km/h (115 mph). The powerful storm caused a complete shutdown of the country’s electricity grid.
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Brigitte García, Ecuador’s youngest mayor, has been shot dead. The 27-year-old, along with her press officer, was discovered deceased in a car on Sunday in the town of San Vicente, where she had triumphed in the mayoral election just last year.
In Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, hundreds of people staged a rare public demonstration on Sunday to protest continued power outages and food shortages.
This development follows a series of attacks orchestrated by gangs targeting the airport, police stations, and prisons throughout the week. These groups are advocating for the removal of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Reports indicate that he arrived in the capital, San Juan, on Tuesday after departing from New Jersey in the US. His whereabouts had been unknown for several days following a trip to Kenya.
Gang leaders say they want to force Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign. The groups who want him to quit control around 80% of Port-au-Prince.
Bonaire is the latest victim of oil contamination stemming from the barge, which ran aground earlier this month.
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