No lights, no friends: Cuban youth grapple with loneliness
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October 18, 2026
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — With frequent power cuts transforming Havana into a ghost town, young Cubans are struggling to get their kicks, many resorting to games of dominoes with strangers to pass the time.
Most of 24-year-old Melanie Tejeda’s friends have left the USblockaded island nation, and only five of the 43 students who started an acting programme with her two years ago remain.
She has started going alone to a bar called El Bujeco, where she chats with other dispirited youth looking to escape the blackouts in one of the few places with a generator adapted to run on natural gas.
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