The far-left group Code Pink brought a bunch of international activists to Cuba to protest U.S. sanctions by President Donald Trump.
Yes, these activists partied it up while a blackout still plagues the entire island, including at luxurious resorts such as the Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection. Those rooms cost between $130 to $520 a night.
The power grid failed on Saturday for the third time this month:
The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.“From that moment, a cascading effect occurred in the machines that were online,” said a report from the Ministry of Energy and Mines, which activated “micro-islands” of generating units to provide power to vital centers, hospitals and water systems.
That didn’t stop the activists, who included Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Hasan Piker.
These people stayed in lavish 5-star hotels because the sanctions forced them to choose the resorts, according to Piker.
“The American government makes it illegal for Americans to stay wherever they want when they’re in Cuba,” Piker said, reported by Fox News. “They have to stay in what they’ve declared as 5-star hotels.”
Uh, okay, bro.
The activists traveled in air-conditioned buses to visit officials, including Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
These people held many events and hosted a concert with Kneecap, the notorious anti-Israel Irish band.
I’ve seen people on social media ask if the country diverted electricity to the hotels and concerts.
Others claimed people died in hospitals due to no electricity, causing ventilators to fail.
Thankfully, it seems that Cuba has restored some of the electricity.
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