An islandwide blackout strikes Cuba for the second time this week as its grid crumbles
Officials said the outage hit Cuba’s 10 million residents as fuel shortages and grid failures deepened after another collapse earlier in the week.
- Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed on Friday, marking the second islandwide blackout this week and leaving nearly 10 million people without power as the Electric Union activated emergency recovery protocols.
- Washington's energy blockade has deepened fuel shortages, with Cuba producing only 40% of its required fuel while Russian oil deliveries from late March were exhausted by end of April.
- Public transportation has largely halted, and authorities canceled thousands of surgeries across the island; residents face severe energy rationing with some neighborhoods experiencing intentional outages lasting more than 24 consecutive hours.
- During a General Assembly debate on Tuesday, Ambassador Michael Waltz blamed Havana for the crisis, while Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla condemned Washington sanctions as a "systematic violation of the human rights of an entire people in an act of collective punishment."
- Recent power failures have sparked scattered pot-banging protests in Havana, recalling the July 11, 2021, demonstrations when thousands of Cubans took to the streets in the largest anti-government demonstrations on the communist-run island in decades.
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A new large-scale failure occurred after a similar blackout on Monday, and the US oil blockade paralysed an already obsolete electricity production system on the island.
Cuba was hit on Friday by its second nationwide power outage in five days, according to the country's state-owned electricity company.
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berlingske.dkAuthorities have begun restoring electricity supplies in Cuba after a breakdown of the national power grid.
Cuba is facing a new blackout, the second this week, as the energy crisis has worsened due to the US oil embargo. The post Cuba is facing a new blackout, the second this week appeared first on in.gr.
Cuba has been struggling with a severe energy crisis for years. The US oil embargo and the increasingly degraded infrastructure are exacerbating the situation.
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