Opinion: Keep the lights on in Cuba. Help its people and avert a migration crisis.
This summer promises to be hot and unforgiving for the people of Cuba. The island’s power sector is in a systemic collapse, decades in the making.
Blackouts have averaged between 12 and 20 hours a day for the past couple of years, and this has been exacerbated by the loss of Cuba’s oil imports from Venezuela against its need for 60,000 barrels per day.
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Six solutions to improving the energy crisis
Juan A.B. Belt is the president of International Finance and Economics LLC. (Courtesy)
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U.S. can expand economic interests and keep the island stable
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado is the president of Miramar Associates Consulting. (Courtesy)
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