Less than a month after Cuba faced an energy crisis with sweeping blackouts, the socialist island was hit by Hurricane Rafael

The contradictions in the government’s discourse on the electricity crisis reveal the absence (and possibly the will) of a plan to improve Ecuador’s electricity system. A very serious deepening of the economic crisis is foreseen.

While Ecuadorians endure power outages of more than 10 hours, the government proposes the installation of foreign military bases

South Africa will not move into the light until the social value of access to electricity is affirmed.