Cuban residents suffer daily power outages. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Nick Kureishi. As the energy crisis in Cuba continues, the port of Havana has received two ships carrying humanitarian aid sent by Cuba's ally Mexico. Cuba's struggling after the Trump administration imposed a virtual oil blockade on the island.

The BBC's Will Grant reports.

Two tankers' worth of humanitarian aid has now made it to Cuba sent from the government of Mexican President Claudia Seimbaum.

They included more than 800 tonnes of basic goods, powdered milk, rice and beans, items

desperately needed in this worsening humanitarian crisis in Cuba. However, what wasn't on those

tankers is what Cuba most needs in this moment, which is crude oil.

Will Grant there. Well, daily life

in Cuba is tough. The BBC's Alicia Trujillo has been speaking to a resident of Havana who's

asked that we do not disclose his name. My day-to-day life has been reduced as the life of everybody,

to the survival between cycles of blackouts.

That is now the situation.

So it is very difficult to do anything else or then perform simple tasks in the house,

trying to do something when the electricity is already connected. And how long does it last?

How long does the blackouts last? It depends. 10, 12, 14 hours, 16 hours in a row.

How are people just managing on a day-to-day basis? Surviving. People try to survive.

Depending on the amount of money people have, they try to access to the services or the goods

they need to the day-to-day life.

You cannot accumulate too much food, for example, because of the lack of refrigeration

capacity in the houses.

And even if you have a good refrigerated storage, it depends of the availability of electricity.

So food starts to rot.

It reduces life to try to obtain the things you need for the day.

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