Tropical Storm Oscar, which hit Cuba on October 20, 2024, after first making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm, has left significant damage across the island, particularly in the province of Guantánamo.

Tropical Storm Oscar is chugging toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people

We haven’t had electricity for three nights,” said one Cuban protestor, amid widespread blackouts. Authorities said the outage stemmed from increased demand but residents say this is just the latest issue in a series of problems with electricity.

Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.

The Cuban president says the deaths occurred in an area that saw historic flooding due to the storm.