Cuba's Crumbling Power Grid Plunges Island Into Second Nationwide Blackout in a Week
The Australian—Cuba suffered a second island-wide electrical blackout within a single week, underscoring the catastrophic state of the country's power infrastructure after decades of underinvestment, fuel shortages, and aging equipment. The repeated nationwide outages compound the humanitarian hardship on Cubans already facing severe food and medicine shortages. The grid failures have intensified public frustration and political pressure on the Cuban government.