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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Bernadette B. Tixon

Empty Shelves and Silent Streets, Inside Havana's Struggle Between Survival and Defiance

Cubans in Havana now live by the return of electricity, as shortages leave petrol stations empty and hospitals without medicine. (Credit: Bruno Rijsman/WikiMedia Commons)

Cubans in Havana are organising their daily lives around when the electricity comes back on, not the clock. That is according to Sky News, which spent a week reporting from the Cuban capital.

The broadcaster's lead world news presenter, Yalda Hakim, found empty petrol stations, uncollected rubbish and hospital wards short of medicine during her time there. She also found a population that, despite everything, had not given up.

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