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‘Turn on the lights’: Cubans protest post-Hurricane Ian blackouts

A man stands in front of a police line in a protest amid blackouts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Havana, Cuba [Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters]

Protests have broken out in Cuba for the second night in a row over power outages in the wake of Hurricane Ian, with the continuing shortages reportedly prompting Havana to make a rare appeal to the United States for emergency assistance.

The unrest on the streets of Havana on Thursday and Friday night represented some of the largest demonstrations in the country since thousands of Cubans took to the streets in virtually unprecedented anti-government protests in July 2021.

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