Cuba hit by massive blackout after major power plant trips
TL;DR
A fault at Cuba's main thermoelectric plant, the Antonio Guiteras facility, triggered a sweeping blackout that left about two-thirds of the population—nearly 7 million people, including Havana—without power across 10 of 15 provinces. The government cited an unforeseen shutdown, marking the fifth partial outage in six months and highlighting Cuba's fragile grid amid declining Venezuelan oil shipments and U.S. pressure; restoration could take days as outages have become common.
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