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00:00Battered by days of nationwide blackouts, the lights are finally back on in Havana.
00:07Now with nothing left in her freezer, these last few days have been tough for Lidia Nunez.
00:13I had to cook this, otherwise it would have gone rotten.
00:17Although prices of fruit and vegetables have held steady, since the blackouts, bread prices
00:22have shot up.
00:24Now electricity is back in most of the capital, things feel less tense.
00:29But days of blackouts have led to new problems, throughout the city, bread rations are arriving
00:33late.
00:34And yet it's striking how many people take these massive outages with calm and even nonchalance.
00:41Everything will be okay, we Cubans face adversity with laughter, we always find a way through.
00:47No I'm not scared, because I'm used to it.
00:50So it wasn't a big deal for you?
00:52Nope.
00:5390% of the capital now has electricity.
00:57Dressed in military fatigues, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said millions in the countryside
01:03still don't.
01:04The White House voiced its concern for the Cuban people and said it has nothing to do
01:09with this latest crisis.
01:10This is not, the US is not to blame for the blackouts on the island.
01:15In fact, US sanctions drive up Cuba's energy costs by specifically targeting oil tankers.
01:22More broadly, maximum pressure sanctions cost the island billions of dollars a year, leaving
01:27little money to upgrade infrastructure.
01:30Economic mismanagement by the ruling Communist Party is another major factor.
01:34These last few days have been really bad, this system doesn't work, there's too many
01:38power cuts and not enough food.
01:41In the days ahead, keeping the lights on and getting food to those who need it will be
01:45among the many pressing problems the Cuban government faces.
01:49Time now for some sports news.