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Cuba and the Clock That Only Works with No Electricity
In Cuba, blackouts have turned residents into experts at counting the hours of darkness.
By Yoani Sanchez (14ymedio)
HAVANA TIMES – On Friday, at 5:30 in the afternoon, an invisible clock started ticking. It had no hands, made no sound, and no one knew when it would stop. Its mechanism was simple: to count every minute without electricity in our Havana neighborhood. This Sunday, it would finish its journey after ticking for 37 hours and 19 minutes.
During that time, this zone of high-rise buildings was left suspended in a kind of parentheses. Saturday ceased to be Saturday and became “the day entirely without electricity.” Sunday began as “the second daybreak without power” and finally ended with the return of electricity.
The sad thing is that we’ve........