HAVANA: Power returned to Havana and other parts of western Cuba early Sunday after the latest in a string of widespread grid failures was fixed by the state-run electric company.
Five of 15 provinces spent most of the night without electricity due to a “partial collapse” of the electricity grid, but the power was being restored, Cuba’s UNE said on X.
Cuba is reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades — one made worse by a fuel blockade imposed by US President Donald Trump since January.
Trump has mounted a pressure campaign aimed at ending six decades of communist rule in Cuba.
UNE says the fuel shortages have made the national grid more susceptible to outages and rendered the use of emergency generators — which typically run on diesel fuel — all but impossible.
