Havana In Shadows A City Living on Borrowed LightThe Last WireThe lights are going out in Havana, and not in some poetic, nostalgic way people like to romanticize from a distance. This is not about vibes or vintage decay. This is about a capital city learning to function without power, without certainty, without the most basic promise of modern life.
I was born there. I was blessed to be allowed to leave that mess to come live in the United States. I flip a switch, and the room responds. In Havana, flipping the switch is an act of hope. Darkness isn’t an emergency there anymore. It’s a schedule.
When a city starts budgeting for candles instead of planning for its future, something fundamental has already failed. Blackouts stop being news and become structure. People adapt. That adaptation gets mislabeled as resilience. It isn’t. It’s survival under permanent strain.
This isn’t a policy argument. It’s a reality check. A city running on generators, batteries, and borrowed light cannot pretend this is temporary. And neither should anyone watching from the safety of uninterrupted power.
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