{"id":14684,"date":"2025-03-15T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:05:10","slug":"cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba suffers nationwide power outage, plunging millions into darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89juphv00722cqgcleja6zg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i0005356mil0nb3y2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cAt around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,\u201d Cuba\u2019s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i0006356mfbdnvwnj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i0007356m0stvbbn3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            It marks the latest in a series of failures on the Caribbean island struggling with creaking infrastructure, natural disasters and economic turmoil.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i0008356mngrgxdrq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Cuban officials have previously blamed US economic sanctions, which increased under the previous administration of President Donald Trump, for further crippling an already ailing energy sector.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i0009356m5k5kdj8u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Critics also fault a lack of investment in infrastructure by the communist government.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm89jwu1i000a356myf9p3e0v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            For nearly a week in October, most of Cuba suffered near-total blackouts, the worst energy outages in decades.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its 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