Island-Wide Blackout Hits Cuba as Its Fuel Reserve Dwindles and Aging Grid Crumbles
Authorities said the grid suffered a total disconnection and were investigating the cause as recovery protocols began and local systems came online.
- On Monday, Cuba's national electric grid collapsed at midday, leaving around 10 million people on the Caribbean island without power, according to grid operator UNE.
- Since January, Washington has allowed only a single Russian tanker to deliver oil, exacerbating chronic outages tied to aging power plants and a U.S. oil blockade starving the island of fuel.
- Cubans exhausted by rolling blackouts that make work and sleep impossible in Caribbean summer heat have taken to the streets to protest, following a half dozen nationwide outages last year and two massive blackouts in March.
- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez is traveling to New York for the United Nations General Assembly to denounce the U.S. energy blockade, calling out Washington's "aggressive actions" against the island.
- President Donald Trump's administration has steadily increased pressure on Cuba hoping to end nearly seven decades of one-party rule, while the United Nations warns that tighter U.S. sanctions risk sparking a humanitarian crisis.
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On the Caribbean island of Cuba the power supply is only slowly restored, initially for critical infrastructure. Projectiles hit into a tanker in the street of Hormus. The DW news overview.
On Monday, there was a nationwide power outage in already hard-hit Cuba.
More hardship in fuel-starved Cuba, hit by third nationwide blackout this year
Cuba on Monday suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, causing mounting despair in the face of an energy collapse precipitated by a US fuel blockade. The communist island was already struggling to keep the lights on before US President Donald Trump in January cut off its oil supplies, depleting the dwindling supply of fuel for its power plants. Union Electrica (UNE), the state electricity company, announced a “tot…
For the time being, all efforts to restore the supply do not work, and the power cuts are linked to the oil blockade imposed by the United States.
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