Schools reopen across Cuba as fuel, water and power shortages persist
- On Tuesday, more than 10,000 schools across Cuba opened, welcoming an estimated 1.4 million children and more than 135,000 teachers despite severe shortages of fuel, instructors, and uniforms.
- Teacher coverage fell to 73% across the island, prompting Education Minister Naima Trujillo Barreto to reassign more than 3,000 educators from eastern provinces to Havana to maintain operations.
- School uniforms met only 12% of demand, leading Trujillo Barreto to allow students to wear "comfortable clothing" while requiring traditional red and blue kerchiefs.
- Families like the Barrosos rely on borrowed animals for transportation after thieves recently stole their horse, complicating school attendance amid power outages lasting more than 20 hours.
- Calling the reopening a "heroic act," Trujillo Barreto acknowledged the difficult environment for an island whose education system was once a crowning achievement of the 1959 revolution.
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Havana, 1 Sep (EFE).- Around 1.4 million students returned to classrooms in Cuba this Tuesday, in the midst of the energy and economic crisis, which will mark an exceptional academic period. The Cuban government celebrated the date with an event in Havana in an attempt to sustain one of the so-called “conquests” [...] The entry Cuba starts a “adjusted” school year to the crisis and the “overhelp” of families was first published in HolaNews.
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Independent EspañolOne and a half million students start the school year in Cuba, facing blackouts and resource shortages due to the oil embargo. Parents and teachers make efforts to maintain education despite the difficulties, with community support and flexibility in the rules.
The 2026-2027 course starts in Cuba after 24 consecutive hours of electrical damage. UNE foresees up to 2,310 MW of blackouts on Tuesday, while students and teachers return to classrooms with a shortage of resources and a shortage of teachers.
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