Cuba reports new nationwide blackout
Cuba’s power grid failed again on Aug. 2 night, causing another nationwide blackout, a state utility said in a social media post.
As the lights suddenly turned off across Havana, residents who were sat outside to get some respite from the summer heat audibly groaned en masse.
Cuba has been suffering rolling power cuts due to aging equipment and a U.S. energy embargo that halted regular deliveries of fuel for power stations.
State-run UNE said there was a “total disconnection” of the national electricity system, plunging the country, including the capital, into abrupt darkness.
