Havana residents are spending nights along the city’s seaside boardwalk, the Malecón, to find relief from oppressive summer heat and frequent power outages. Multiple outlets report that on Monday, construction worker Alexey Ríos García woke to the ocean breeze and concrete of the boulevard rather than his bed, sleeping outdoors with other people during another islandwide blackout. PBS and Inquirer.net both describe the situation as part of a broader energy and economic crisis. They report that the blackout is the sixth islandwide outage Cuba has experienced this year. Sources also link the current crisis to a reduction in fuel supplies after the Trump administration, according to these reports, effectively cut Cuba off from oil in January—Cuba’s main energy source. The reported combination of rolling blackouts and extreme heat drives many residents to seek cooler conditions outside, particularly along breezy waterfront areas like the Malecón. While the accounts focus on individual experiences and the immediate cause—loss of electricity and high temperatures—together they characterize the outages as recurring and widespread across the island.