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Cuba plans to close more than 100 factories for all of October as part of a plan to deal with power shortages. Other measures to save energy include a shorter working week, reduced street lighting and scheduled power cuts. The power shortages have caused a range of problems - affecting the flow of drinking water in homes and causing fridges and freezers to stop working.

Western diplomats say Cuba is finding it difficult to make the investment its power system needs because of a US trade embargo.