Cuba's Fine Electrical Grid

When I was on the island last year,  I could count on two things every afternoon: 1) I'd need to change shirts due to schvitz-factor; 2) a blackout.

Good to know among the inconvenienced recently was the minister in charge of stopping them...

Minister in charge of energy suffers a blackout
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - 5 July (Guillermo Fariñas, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Yadira García Vera, the minister of Basic Industry, was participating in a meeting on Cuba's ongoing electrical shortage when the lights went out, an occurrence she had promised to prevent.

Sources close to the local committee of the Communist Party said that embarrassed party officials offered their apologies to the minister after the blackout June 23 at the theater of the Central University. Power was restored when an emergency generator was put into service.

That evening, the minister experienced another power shortage at a government security center where she was staying. She was then taken to the Granjita tourism area where emergency generators guarantee a continuous flow of electricity.

García Vera was named Basic Industry minister last summer after Marcos Portal was forced to resign after a five-month energy crisis which the new minister promised to resolve.

Because in a communist paradise the tourists must get the juice.