内容摘要：“He is guilt ridden for his actions and the harm he has visited on his family, who remain detained in a refugee camp in Syria living under terrible conditions,”

“He is guilt ridden for his actions and the harm he has visited on his family, who remain detained in a refugee camp in Syria living under terrible conditions,”

The government has said that a plan to address the problem includes the installation of solar parks and repair its generators with the support from China and Russia. But little progress has been made so far.In the meantime, Cubans must continue to find ways to navigate the crisis.

In the outskirts of Havana, 45-year-old blacksmith Edinector Vázquez is busier than ever, serving a growing clientele of less affluent families.Vázquez makes charcoal stoves from metal scraps that he sells for around $18 — the equivalent of a Cuban state worker’s monthly salary — but he says he offers discounts to low-income families.Natividad Hernández, with slightly more resources than the Bahía neighborhood family, invested in solar panels, but her budget didn’t allow for installing batteries and other components, limiting their use to daytime hours and when there’s some grid electricity.

As blackouts increase, Cuba’s online shopping pages are inundated with ads for rechargeable fans, lamps with chargers and charging stations — mostly imports from the United States and Panama — making them unaffordable for many.“Lack of oil, gas, and increased electricity consumption for cooking, combined with high summer temperatures and possible hurricanes — not even a good Mexican soap opera can paint a more dramatic picture,” said Jorge Piñón, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin’s Energy Institute.

According to Piñón, solving Cuba’s energy crisis would require “three to five years” and up to $8 billion.

Faced with this grim prospect, Cubans are not optimistic.The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where victim Nahel Merzouk grew up and was killed in 2023, announced in a statement that magistrates decided Tuesday to send the police officer to trial after a two-year investigation.

The officer, identified in legal documents only as Florian M., was initially detainedpending further investigation. He is expected to face trial in the third quarter of 2026, the prosecutor’s office said.

Merzouk’s family and lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the announcement.The teenager was shot during a traffic stop in Nanterre. Video showed two officers at the window of the Mercedes the youth was driving, one with his gun pointed at Merzouk. As the car pulled forward, the officer fired once.