(UPDATE) HAVANA — A hurricane was approaching Cuba Sunday as the island nation's authorities struggled to restore power following a massive nationwide outage.

The expected arrival of Hurricane Oscar, just days after the failure of Cuba's largest power plant crippled the national grid, piles more pressure on a country already battling sky-high inflation and shortages of food, medicine, fuel and water.

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