Yunia Figueredo, an independent journalist in Havana, sent me a voice message recently from her daughter's phone because her own had no data connection.
Earlier that morning, she had tried to boil eggs for her youngest daughter's breakfast during one of Cuba's brief bursts of electricity.
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“The electricity came on for one minute, then three minutes later they cut it,” Figueredo said. “The egg is still there in the pot.”
Her daughter has health conditions that prevent her from eating staples like rice or beans. With charcoal nearly impossible to find, almost everything in her kitchen depends on electricity that may last only minutes at a time.
"This is not life," Figueredo said. "We are dying here."
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