The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.

The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.

  • EasternLettuce@lemm.ee
    131·
    21 hours ago

    They have been under a complete economic blockade for 70 years. They can’t import things like transformers

    • insufferableninja@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      16 hours ago

      Embargo, not blockade. For a little more than 60 years, not 70. Cuba’s trading partners include Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, from whom they absolutely can import things like transformers.