HAVANA, October 11 (Edel José García, CNP / CubaNet) -
Starting October 1, Cuban authorities have been cutting electrical service to
various areas more frequently and for longer periods than before, presumably as
a savings measure.
The central Cuban provinces of Villa Clara and Sancti Spíritus report
blackouts that now last more than eight hours a day. In Havana city and Havana
province cuts have also been reported with more frequency than recently.
Local authorities have also decreed that facilities with air conditioning
shut the equipment off. At the post office in Old Havana, customers and workers
complained about the heat in recent days. An official there said they had been
ordered to turn off the air conditioner, and added that there was also no
running water in the bathrooms.
"The scarcity of dollars, the reduction in the number of foreign
tourists, and the evident worsening of the economic crisis after the terrorist
attacks of September 11 will surely result in more blackouts," said one
analist.
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