HAVANA (AP) — Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba ‘s capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana’s famous seaside boulevard.

The 30-year-old construction worker ended up curling up with other Cubans on the city’s sea wall, the Malecón, in a desperate attempt to escape the suffocating summer heat during yet another islandwide blackout.