Cubans protest after third nationwide power cut this year

The country's second-largest city, Cuba" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="27808" data-entity-type="location">Santiago de Cuba, was among places where power had not yet been restored on Tuesday evening local time.Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has acknowledged the spreading discontent among Cubans. "There are shortages of transport, food, medicines, there are lengthy power cuts lasting more than 20 hours, that causes dissatisfaction, nobody can be happy, the people are suffering," he told reporters from Claridad, a Spanish-language weekly newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. But he urged Cubans to direct their anger towards the US government instead of his, adding: "People bang pots, some with more anger than others. I say: direct your pot-banging towards our northern neighbours, who are the ones behind these power cuts."The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Michael Waltz, however, placed the blame squarely with the Cuban government.Speaking at a meeting of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, he urged it to "change your ways and turn the lights back on for your people".He added that "there always seems to be enough power for the Cuban dictatorship".But Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, accused the US of waging "multi-dimensional, non-conventional warfare" against Cuba, which he said had "become ever more cruel" over the last seven months.