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Cuba works to restore power after another major nationwide blackout
The outage marks at least the sixth one this year after a United States-imposed energy blockade went into effect.
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Cuba faces its eighth national blackout in 2026 in full energy crisis
Cuba faces another national blackout in the midst of an energy crisis that is aggravated by the US oil embargo. The US and the deterioration of its power grid. Millions of citizens were left without light for hours and are managed to cope with the situation: from portable solar panels to load phones to improvised fans to fight heat.
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Millions without power in Cuba as electrical grid collapses again
Cuba was plunged into its seventh massive blackout of the year on Friday. The island of over nine million people endures constant power cuts due to the poor state of its aging thermoelectric plants – but the situation has worsened significantly since January, when Washington imposed a de facto energy blockade on the island. Story by Shirli Sitbon.
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Cuba: New massive power outage, seventh of the year
Cuba suffers on Friday 18 September a further general power outage, the seventh since the beginning of the year, against the background of a serious fuel shortage on the communist island, under pressure from Washington.
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Millions without power as Cuba hit by latest major blackout
Widespread power outages have become increasingly common due to fuel shortages made worse by a US blockade.
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Cuba: Seventh power outage of the year plunges the island into darkness
On Friday, the Cuban electricity network suffered a total breakdown, plunging the country into darkness and depriving millions of people of electricity in a context of US pressure campaign, which complicates the supply of fuel. This is the seventh general breakdown since the beginning of the year.
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Cuba hit with another nationwide blackout amid US fuel blockade
Cuba suffered a total blackout after the collapse of its electrical grid on Friday. The blackout is the latest of at least six partial or total grid collapses since the beginning of this year, as the island grapples with an ongoing US fuel blockade.
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Cuba faces another nationwide blackout amid US fuel blockade
Millions were left without electricity as Cuba's aging power grid collapsed under the weight of fuel shortages, deteriorating infrastructure and US sanctions.
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Cuba is suffering its eighth national blackout of 2026 in the midst of a deep energy crisis
A failure in the transmission lines caused the total disconnection of the electrical system and left more than nine million people without light. The new collapse comes in a Cuba hit by fuel shortages, the deterioration of its power plants and cuts that in some areas of the country continue for days.
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Homeland Security, rights group to meet in court over migrants at Guantanamo Bay
PENTAGON — U.S. government lawyers are expected to face off with attorneys for civil and immigration rights groups over the use of a U.S. naval base in Cuba to hold migrants slated for deportation. Arguments in the two lawsuits over operations at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, filed against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, are set for a U.S. District Court in Washington on Friday. The suits allege that the U.S. government has overstepped its bounds by denying migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay access to legal representation and also by attempting to send migrants to t