npr.org/2024/10/19/nx-s1-5158380/cuba-power-outage-electricity-embargo

MEXICO CITY — Cuba’s power grid collapsed for a second time on Saturday, shortly after Cuban officials announced they had begun reestablishing service, in what has become one of the worst crises in the country’s history.

The massive outage leaves 10 million people on the Caribbean island without electricity, and with no clear indication of when power might be restored.

It is a new low in a country that has already been dealing with a deepening economic crisis, compounded by the U.S. embargo and widespread food shortages.

The crisis began on Friday when one of the country’s largest power plants, the Antonio Guiteras power plant in the western province of Matanzas, failed shortly before midday on Friday. The failure prompted a total breakdown of Cuba’s electrical system.

This is entirely the consequence of decades of continued strangulation of the Cuban nation by the US to prevent them from having access to the global market for simply embarrassing them in Bay of Pigs

Saw this yesterday. Absolutely insane

F*** the US

f*** you b**** @Boomerang

El Bloqueo is one of the biggest and most flagrant instances of collective punishment on earth. people should be in the streets over it.

Crazy

free cuba from the dictatorship

care to explain what’s funny?

clown ass

So the CIA said your last thread about the Venezuelan elections was a flop huh?

iT's aMeRiCa's fAuLt

If Cubans wanted to overthrow the government they would’ve done it long ago, the sanctions are what keeps Cuba poor

You listen to gusanos that fled the country

Why do Cubans deserve to suffer because they have a different form of government?

ITT ppl that have never spoken to a Cuban in their life

clown ass

clown ass

I’d rather listen to the millions of Cubans that still live in cuba and support the communist government

Or I suppose they are all dumb and scared and have no agency right? They don’t have free will and are trapped on the island and everything the US says about Cuba is right

We should just listen to the minority that gather in Florida

Clown

Americans will talk to Cubans who’s great grandfather owned large acres of land and s*** while millions of Cubans worked on American plantations lol

They won’t actually look ip videos of Cubans living on the island that aren’t thru CNN because it’s automatically biased and those brown people can’t possibly think for themselves

Cuba’s prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, blamed the problem on deteriorating infrastructure and fuel shortages exacerbated by Hurricane Milton, which has made it difficult for much-needed fuel deliveries to reach the island.

Might as well move this to the Politics sxn since you decided to randomly blame the US like a schizo lol

ignoring the trolls itt, this is a good modern documentary on the effects of El Bloqueo on Cuba today

its split into 6 parts.

I’ve been to Cuba you f***ing idiot, I’ve driven through the whole country and talked to a lot of people there. Not American and never been to Florida though. But you’re a good example of the people itt I was talking about.

oh wow you visited a country? thats crazy bro you must be some sort of expert now.

I encourage you to do some reading on Cuba

The blockade has and will be centered around everything in regards to Cuba’s development. Not even US media outlets deny it, the framing is the political orientation of why it exists

this isn’t schizo you are just under-informed

"deteriorating infrustructure" is the result of the blockade, the Cuban government cannot aquire materials needed to maintain a power grid which under normal circumstances they'd have access to. you sure couldnt wait to throat uncle sam and swallow the nut tho, noted.