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Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk to seek relief from crippling blackouts and summer heat

Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk to seek relief from crippling blackouts and summer heat
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Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba 's capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana's famous seaside boulevard. The 30-year-old construction worker ended up curling up with other Cubans on the city's sea wall, the Malecón, in a desperate attempt to escape the s...

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