Cuba electric grid collapses amid US oil blockade causing national blackout
Al Jazeera
Cuba has not received oil shipments since early January amid US pressure, worsening the humanitarian crisis on the island.
Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed amid an ongoing United States-imposed oil blockade on the island nation.
The collapse on Monday left the entire country of about 10 million without power, according to the Union Nacional Electrica de Cuba (UNE). The state-owned company said it was working to restore electricity flows.
It added that it was investigating what caused the “complete shutdown of the national grid”.
No oil has been imported to Cuba since January 9 amid the US pressure campaign.
Following the US military abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the government of Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez agreed to stifle oil shipments to Cuba.
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