Lights still out in Cuba after Hurricane Rafael

Rafael hit western Cuba on Wednesday as a major Category 3 hurricane and swept across the island in two and a half hours before losing intensity as it entered the Gulf of Mexico. It came just two weeks after Hurricane Oscar, which left eight dead in the east of the island during a national electricity blackout that lasted four days. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that the provinces of Artemisa, Havana and Mayabeque were worst hit. Writing on the social platform X, he said that authorities were...