Latest outage darkens island facing dwindling oil reserves and increasing pressure from Washington
A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba, leaving millions of people in Havana and beyond without power in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and facing increasing pressure from Washington.
Cuba has experienced a series of major blackouts in recent years, even before the US cut off oil shipments to the Caribbean’s largest island. Cuba’s government has attributed its economic crisis to decades of economic sanctions from the US.
A more recent scarcity of oil from Venezuela and Mexico due to US pressure has worsened existing shortages.
The state electricity entity UNE said that it was working to restore services, and that the blackout affected the island from the central province of Camagüey to Pinar del Rio in the far west.
