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The country's energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island's top electricity producer, had shut down at around 2 a.m., prompting the grid collapse. Cuba ...
“At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said.… Cuba hit by second blackout after ...
Cuba’s energy grid has collapsed, leaving millions without power, the latest in a series of failures on an island struggling from creaking infrastructure, natural disasters and economic turmoil.
A total nationwide power outage began at around 11:00 local time on 18 October, after the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant in Matanzas, the country's largest, went offline, [3] resulting in the loss of 1.64 gigawatts at peak hours, equivalent to half the total consumer demand. [12] Power was partially restored for a short time before shutting down ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island's people after the national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours, plunging millions of ...
The Cuban government and its allies blame the United States' 62-year-old trade embargo on the island for its economic problems but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that the Cuban government’s “long-term mismanagement of its economic policy and resources has certainly increased the hardship of people in Cuba.”
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 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 ...