Cuba Faces yet Another Nationwide Blackout as Electrical Grid Collapses
- Cuba's national electricity grid collapsed on Sunday, the state-run Electric Union announced on Twitter, plunging the island into a widespread blackout. The outage marks the latest in a series of nationwide failures this year.
- Aging thermoelectric plants, some more than 30 years old, have deteriorated amid fuel shortages exacerbated by US-imposed oil blocks under United States President Donald Trump following the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
- The blackout left about 10 million people without electricity, disrupting medical services and transport. Unresolved complaints mounted in municipalities including Guanabacoa and Marianao before the grid failure, according to Reuters.
- Electric Union authorities are attempting to restore power by creating small, isolated networks for hospitals and food facilities, though they provided no cause for the collapse in posts on Twitter and Facebook.
- This event follows three grid collapses within nine days in July, occurring as Havana attempts to secure fuel imports through a recently authorized foreign-backed venture despite halted supplies from Venezuela and Mexico amid US-imposed pressure.
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The last total blackout that hit the island of Cuba on Sunday, the sixth since the beginning of 2026, has pushed the US embassy today to issue an alert security through social media warning "all US citizens in Cuba or who intend to go ... (ANSA)
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Cubans struggle to bounce back after 6th nationwide blackout this year
HAVANA (AP) — Cubans on Monday were recovering from the sixth islandwide blackout this year, as the nation remains in free-fall after the Trump administration effectively cut it off from oil in January.
According to the Cuban government, in the last seven months Washington has only allowed the arrival of a Russian tanker with 100,000 tons of crude oil.
(Mexico City = Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Gwang-ho = Amid continuing U.S. economic sanctions and energy blockade, Cuba faces another massive blackout as the National Electricity Network (SEN) collapses...
Cuba dawned this Monday in a general blackout, the eleventh in two years of a total energy crisis caused by various factors.
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