Cuba in the Dark: Oil Blockade Sparks Islandwide Energy Crisis
TL;DR
The U.S.-led oil embargo has left Cuba facing its worst energy crisis in modern history, triggering rolling and islandwide blackouts, water and medicine shortages, hospital disruptions, and widespread hardship as ordinary Cubans adapt with bicycles and improvised fuel sources while debates over responsibility and potential policy changes intensify.
- ‘It’s the people who are suffering.’ How Cuba is struggling under U.S. oil blockade Los Angeles Times
- Opinion | Cuba Tries One More Big Con WSJ
- Cuba's second power cut in a week leaves 10 million in darkness BBC
- Cuba begins to restore power after third nationwide collapse in a month NPR
- Cuba restores power to Havana after second grid collapse in a week Reuters
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