A damaged hospital, destroyed homes, downed trees and power poles, and towns where residents wade through waist-deep water. Those are some of the images coming out of Cuba in the aftermath of the destruction left by Category 3 Hurricane Ian, which battered the island’s westernmost provinces Tuesday.
“It has been a terrible morning,” Yoandy Izquierdo Toledo, an activist from the independent Convivencia Center, based in the westernmost province of Pinar del Río, told el Nuevo Herald.
“Communication is very difficult, landline and mobile phone services are interrupted,” he said in WhatsApp messages he managed to send.
