Cuba's power grid faces another nationwide outage, highlighting the country's ongoing struggle with its crumbling infrastructure and economic crisis.
Another nationwide blackout in Cuba highlights the country's crumbling power infrastructure and escalating frustrations among its 10 million residents.
Roman Perez Castaneda, the deputy technical director of the Guiteras thermal power plant in central Cuba, said the problem had been resolved, but most of the country was still in the dark. The blackout, the third in less than two months, dealt another blow to the communist-run island of 10 million people, which is reeling from the effects of two hurricanes, repeated power outages and a severe economic crisis.In mid-October, a massive four-day blackout hit the nation of 10 million people, leaving life in the capital Havana at a virtual standstill.
The energy ministry sought to downplay the gravity of the latest blackout, saying on X that a “large percentage” of the system would be back up and running by the end of Wednesday. “We live in fear of power cuts and blackouts,” Orlando Matos, a 56-year-old night watchman in the central Havana district of Vedado, complained.Communist authorities have blamed previous outages on difficulties in acquiring fuel for the country’s power plants — attributed to the tightening of a six-decade-long US trade embargo that intensified during Donald Trump’s first presidency.
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