Cubans sweating out power, water shortages

Cubans sweating out power, water shortages

HAVANA - Several dozen government employees arriving home from work milled for hours outside their 20-story apartment building, waiting for power to be restored so they could take the elevator up and cook dinner. Across town in a tiny, dilapidated apartment, 76-year-old Angela Vargas gasped as the image of President Fidel Castro flickered out and back on again on the television screen, a sign of the continued instability in Cuba’s aging electrical system.

Worker’s paradise my ass! Are you reading, Bob Avakian?