Life goes on in Cuba despite brutal US blockade

Niamh Ní Bhriain travelled to Havana last month as part of an international medical aid convoy. Although exhausted by life under the blockade, Cubans are defiant, she writes

Workers struggle to get to and from work, food grown in the countryside doesn’t reach urban areas, meanwhile produce entering Cuba from abroad is difficult to distribute. People are going hungry. Photo: Niamh Ní Bhriain

On March 21, Cuba’s national energy grid collapsed for the second time in less than a week.

Exasperated Cubans uttered the familiar ‘se nos fue la luz’ (the electricity is gone).