Cuba is currently facing its most challenging situation since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The communist government is dealing with nationwide power failures that have worsened the existing shortages of food, fuel, and medicine on the island. The national grid has failed four times in the last four days, leaving most of … Read more
Despite Cuba’s efforts to restore power to the island, they were unsuccessful for a third time late on Saturday, according to Cuban authorities. This left millions of people in the dark and raised doubts about the government’s ability to reestablish electrical service. The national electrical grid first went down around midday on Friday after the … Read more
By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga Cuba has restored a trickle of power to its grid by mid-evening on Friday, officials said, hours after the island plunged into a countrywide blackout following the collapse of one of its major power plants. The vast majority of the country’s 10 million residents were still in the dark … Read more
Friday’s total black out came after the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas – the largest on the island – went offline. President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said the situation was his “absolute priority”. “There will be no rest until power is restored,” he wrote on X., external. Earlier on Friday, officials announced that all schools … Read more