Cuba's national electrical grid goes down, millions of people without power - Cuba is holding talks with the US to overcome the crisis
Cuba’s national electric grid went down on Monday, the country’s grid operator said, leaving about 10 million people without power due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has paralyzed the island’s already aging generation system. Grid operator UNE said on social media that it was investigating the causes of the power outage, the latest in a series of widespread outages lasting hours or days and that this weekend sparked a rare violent protest in the communist-run country.
Officials ruled out a major fault at the power plant but had not yet determined the root cause of the outage, suggesting a transmission problem. Officials said they had begun restoring power to small groups of circuits, or microsystems, across the country, a first but necessary step in fully restoring the electrical grid.
The United States has ramped up pressure this year on Cuba, a longtime foe, since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor — in January. U.S. President Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba, crippling the Caribbean island’s aging network. Cuba said Friday it had entered into talks with the United States in hopes of defuseing the crisis. Trump has said in recent weeks that Cuba is on the verge of collapse and is eager to make a deal with the United States.
However, Cubans are accustomed to power outages, whether related to oil supply shortages or systemic failures in the grid, which can also be the result of low energy production.
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