Seventy percent of Cuba's population has power again as the island recovers from a nationwide blackout and a hurricane that left seven people dead, the government said Tuesday.

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.

Cuba's capital was partially illuminated Monday night after a massive blackout that has generated a handful of protests and a stern government warning that any unrest will be punished.

Cuba's national electric grid went offline on Friday, officials said, resulting in a country-wide blackout. The national electrical system of Cuba suffered a total disconnection at 11 a.m. local time after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant failed,

Cuba's capital was partially illuminated on Tuesday after a large-scale blackout generated a handful of protests and a stern government warning that any unrest would be punished.

The Cuban government regularly imposes hours-long blackouts in different parts of the country to conserve the fuel necessary to run the electrical plants. But the current outage is different. It was sparked by a breakdown at one of the country’s aging electrical stations and has affected every facet of life for ordinary people: They cannot cool or light their homes,

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Cuba's capital was partially illuminated on Tuesday after a large-scale blackout generated a handful of protests and a stern government warning that any unrest would be punished.