A man hits a pot as he walks past a fire during a protest against a lack of power in the Lawton neighborhood of Havana on May 14, 2026. Cuban authorities blamed the United States for the “particularly worrying” state of its power grid after the east of the country suffered another major power outage on May 14. Atlantic author Gisela Salim-Peyer he recently spoke to Cubansthey told him they wanted to set the record straight: “They told me, the anger they feel toward Trump is not as strong as the anger they feel toward their own government.”
