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A man bangs a pot while walking past a fire set during a protest against the lack of energy in the Lawton neighborhood in Havana on May 14, 2026. Cuban authorities blamed the United States for the “particularly tense” situation in its electricity grid after the country’s east was hit by another widespread power cut on May 14. When the Atlantic reporter Gisela Salim-Peyer recently spoke with Cubans, they told her that they wanted to set the record straight: “The anger they feel toward Trump, they told me, was not as fervent as the anger they feel toward their own government.”
