A small town in far eastern Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least six people after Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm with winds and heavy rain.

A general view of the city during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana, taken on October 18, 2024. Technical breakdowns, fuel shortages and high demand have caused the country's thermoelectric power plants to constantly fail,

By Monday afternoon, around 89 percent of customers in the capital had power again, however many residents outside Havana remained without electricity, according to the authorities.

Electricity has been restored to almost 90 percent of Havana, the Cuban capital's energy supplier reported Monday, but several provinces remained without power four days after the start of a nationwide blackout.

Cuban authorities are warning that people who protest due to a massive blackout will be prosecuted to "the full extent of the law." Why it matters: President Miguel Díaz-Canel is trying to discourage mass protests like those seen in 2021,

The repeated failure of the power grid and a hurricane that has swamped the island’s eastern end has many Cubans fed up, posing a challenge to the Communist government.

Electricity outages have paralyzed an already-crippled economy, leading to shortages of everything from cash to running water.