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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 ...
The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities (Spanish: municipios).They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976 [1] and reformed in 2010 with the abrogation of the municipality of Varadero and the creation of two new provinces: Artemisa and Mayabeque in place of former La Habana Province.
Cuba's provinces, 1879 to 1976 Cuba's provinces on a 1910s map. The provinces were created in 1879 by the Spanish colonial government. From 1879 to 1976, Cuba was divided into six provinces, which maintained with little changes the same boundaries and capital cities, although with modifications in official names.
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.
La Habana: 0.813 2 Isla de la Juventud: 0.802 High human development 3 Artemisa and Mayabeque: 0.777 4 Matanzas: 0.769 5 Guantánamo: 0.768 – Cuba (average) 0.764: 6 Ciego de Ávila: 0.764 Santiago de Cuba: 8 Cienfuegos: 0.763 9 Pinar del Río: 0.756 10 Villa Clara: 0.748 Sancti Spíritus: 12 Holguín: 0.742 13 Camagüey: 0.740 14 Granma: 0. ...
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 ...
The earthquake’s strength was felt along the coast of Cuba causing flooding, and major destruction. According to The New York Times, The quakes damaged homes and powerlines and caused landslides in the coastal provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Granma, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said on X.