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Cubans still reeling from months of hours-long blackouts now have a new problem on their hands: fuel shortages. Many gas stations across the island have been shuttered for days as an unusually ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country's largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as ...
Cuba's National Electric Union reported it had run a deficit of nearly 1600 megawatts with a demand approaching 3,200 MW around supper time on Thursday, leaving millions without lights, fans and ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
On 17 March and 18 March 2024, blackouts alongside a poor harvest and food shortages [29] [6] [30] caused [7] [8] widespread protests primarily in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second largest city, during which three people were arrested. [5] [31] Cuba accused the government of the United States of stirring up unrest, an accusation that the United ...
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...
On Monday, Cuba's foreign ministry issued a statement saying it had summoned Benjamin Ziff, the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba, to a meeting with deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio.
19 April – 2023 Cuban presidential election Citizens in Cuba elect the President 5 September – The Cuban foreign ministry says they are aware of activities that sought to enlist Cuban citizens to fight on Russia 's side in the Russo-Ukrainian War .