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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ORF.at NewsDue to the degraded infrastructure and an oil embargo imposed by the US for months, the socialist Caribbean island suffers from a severe energy crisis.
Another large-scale power outage occurred on the 10th (local time) in Cuba, which is suffering from an energy crisis due to the U.S. oil embargo. This comes just four days after a major blackout on the 6th. Cuba's state-owned electricity company (UNE) announced on that day at X that "a total shutdown of the national power system has occurred" and that "protocols to begin restoration procedures are being activated." This is the fourth power outag…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwak Min-seo = Another large-scale power outage has occurred in Cuba, which is suffering from a chronic energy shortage.
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