Part of this may be due to Hurricane Irma which also hit Cuba hard in 2017. This was only a block or so away from the coast where the storm came ashore.
From The New Yorker: "After hitting the Leewards, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, Irma bashed her way along a two-hundred-mile swath of Cuba’s northern coast that included Camagüey, Santa Clara, and Havana before moving toward the Keys and Florida, making landfall with winds of nearly a hundred and sixty miles per hour. It was the first Category 5 hurricane to hit Cuba since 1937, when Ernest Hemingway was an occasional resident of the island. (Cojímar, a little port just east of Havana, where his fabled fishing boat, Pilar, was later moored, was severely damaged.) Waves up to thirty-six feet high crashed onto Havana’s Malecón. Ten people died, and as many as four thousand homes were destroyed. Damage to the island’s electrical grid was severe, as well as to its agricultural sector. One senior official described the destruction to the island’s banana, rice, and sugar crops as “incalculable.” Several coastal tourist resorts, including the premier beach resort of Varadero, were also hit hard."