while life in Cuba slowly goes back to normal after Friday’s massive power collapse that left the whole island in the dark it is important to explain what normal is in a country with such a deficient energy generation and distribution electricity is rationed some hours of the day in a system of rotation among provinces and neighborhoods for over a year every home in Havana has experienced at least a few hours a day without electricity some days of the week some smaller towns experience8 hours a day without electricity or sometimes none at all the core of the problem lies in the short supply of fuel and spare parts to fix the ancient thermoelectric plants