How Cubans Are Living in the Dark

Lisette Poole González, a photographer for The New York Times, talks with Jack Nicas, The Times’s Mexico City bureau chief, about photographing Havana at night amid an energy crisis.

By Jack Nicas, Lisette Poole González, Leila Medina, Christina Thornell, Coleman Lowndes, Joey Sendaydiego and Thomas Vollkommer

June 19, 2026