US EditionCuba reports second nationwide power grid outage in a week
Cuba's national grid failed for the second time in a week amid a US oil blockade causing fuel shortages and daily outages affecting 11 million residents, officials said.
- A total island-wide disconnection occurred, leaving more than 10 million people without power, and restoration protocols began, according to Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines.
- Last week, President Miguel Díaz‑Canel blamed the outages on halted fuel shipments from Venezuela and a U.S. energy blockade after tariff threats, according to officials.
- Saturday's outage was the fourth major blackout in four months, with electricity slowly restored to hospitals and some of the island's 11 million residents, while humanitarian organizations began delivering aid Friday amid protests.
- The rhetoric escalated as President Miguel Díaz‑Canel warned of potential attack while Trump said 'Taking Cuba in some form&whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth.'
- The crisis echoes Cuba's 1991 Special Period, as the country has relied heavily on oil from Mexico, Russia and Venezuela while facing a long-standing U.S. embargo since 1959.
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Cuba was hit by another island-wide power outage on Saturday, the Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mining said on social media, AFP reported. It was the second nationwide blackout in less than a week.
At 6:38 p.m. yesterday afternoon, local time, Cuba produced the third major blackout of the month and the second in the week.
Cuba Is in the Dark and Plunged Into Chaos: It Suffers the Second Total Blackout in Less than a Week
The Cuban authorities reported last night a new total blackout throughout the island, due to a new collapse of the electricity system throughout the island, which represents the second national blackout in less than a week, since the previous one happened last day 16. According to the Ministry of Energy and Mines and the Electric Union, the blackout in Cuba originated from a failure in Unit 6 of the Nuevitas thermoelectric, which triggered a dom…
In Cuba there is no electricity for the second time within a week and for the third time this month nationwide. The permanent blackouts exacerbate the already difficult living conditions of the nearly ten million inhabitants.
Cuba has been hit by a second blackout this week, leaving all 10 million people in the Caribbean nation without power. Cuba struggles with an aging power grid and chronic fuel shortages.
This was the second nationwide power outage in a week, and Cuba is finding it increasingly difficult to withstand the American energy blockade.
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