Hurricane Rafael hits Cuba as major storm, weakens to Category 2
The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Rafael weakened into a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 on its way into the Gulf of Mexico, while the ...
Major Hurricane Rafael makes Cuba landfall on way to Gulf of Mexico, then weakens to Category 2
The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Rafael weakened into a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening after making landfall ...
El Dictamen9d
Category 3 Hurricane Rafael makes landfall in Cuba
The eye of Hurricane Rafael, a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday.
Hurricane Rafael slams into Cuba as Category 3 storm: Will it hit the US?
Hurricane Rafael carries a high chance of producing "life-threatening storm surge,'' flash flooding and mudslides, the NHC ...
Hurricane Rafael makes landfall in Cuba as Cat 3 storm with 115-mph winds. Florida impacts?
Even without a landfall in Florida, the state is expected to feel some impacts from Rafael, starting as early as today.
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Hurricane Rafael Prepares to Enter Western Cuba
Cubans lament that the lack of electricity and water has hindered their preparations for the hurricane at a crucial moment.
The Independent18d
Falling off the map: how Cuba has vanished from travellers’ itineraries
I first arrived in the Caribbean’s largest city in January 1989 to research the first independent guidebook to Cuba. Fidel Castro began that year basking, as he had for three decades ...
The Washington Post22d
Lies, intrigue, lawsuits: The last battle for a ‘cursed’ giant emerald
RIO DE JANEIRO — Many extraordinary stories have been told about the Bahia Emerald, a large portion of them false. It has been asserted that panthers, or some other ferocious beasts, attacked a ...
POWER Magazine23d
A Breakdown of Cuba’s Grid Collapse and Recovery Efforts
Cuba is in the throes of a severe energy crisis, driven by fuel supply disruptions and compounded by obstacles in securing vital technologies and supplies needed to modernize and operate its aging ...
Reuters23d
Cuba keeps schools closed, workers home during recovery from power failure, hurricane
HAVANA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Cuba said on Wednesday it would keep schools closed and non-essential workers home through Sunday as the crisis-racked Caribbean island nation struggled to recover from ...
The Conversation24d
Cuba’s power grid collapse reveals the depth of the country’s economic crisis
Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex Cuba’s national grid collapsed four times in as many days last week, after the ...