US EditionCuba reports second nationwide power grid outage in a week
Cuba's aging grid and fuel shortages, worsened by a U.S. oil blockade, triggered the third island-wide blackout in March affecting over 10 million residents, officials said.
- On March 21, Cuba's National Electric Power System collapsed at 6.32pm, causing a third islandwide blackout this month affecting 10 million people.
- Aging thermoelectric plants and fuel shortfalls have caused routine outages and rolling blackouts up to 12 hours, with Cuba producing barely 40 per cent of needed fuel and no foreign oil for three months.
- Authorities said restoration protocols were activated and hospitals postponed thousands of surgeries while ordinary Cubans faced food spoilage, interrupted cooking, and reduced work hours.
- Amid a diplomatic standoff, the Cuban government blamed an effective U.S. energy blockade and tariffs for worsening fuel shortages, while the U.S. administration defended the executive order of January 29 and cited a 'friendly takeover' threat.
- Recent outages show Cuba's power system is deteriorating, with one total failure in a week, while Mexico halted shipments and Cuba was excluded from a Russian-oil exemption.
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Cuba begins recovery efforts after second power grid collapse in a week
Cuba began efforts on Sunday to restore power after its grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a US oil blockade that has dealt a major blow to the island’s already ailing energy infrastructure.
The Cuban authorities began gradually re-establishing the electricity service on the island on Sunday, after the second total blackout in less than a week, in the midst of the fuel shortage and the U.S. crude blockade imposed on the island. On Sunday, two generating units in two thermoelectric power plants went back into operation, Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy reported, in X.
‘US siege is warfare’: Cuba faces second nationwide blackout in under a week
Some Cubans got power back on Sunday after another nationwide blackout on Saturday—the second in less than a week and the third time the grid has collapsed this month after the Trump administration intensified the United States’ decades-long economic blockade, cutting off the island nation from Venezuelan oil.“The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, reported that the total disconnection of the national energy…
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