A total blackout struck Cuba on Monday, with Union Electrica announcing a complete disconnection of the national grid. Power was restored to more than 30 percent of Havana and select critical services by early Tuesday. The event marks the third nationwide outage in 2025 and the eighth since late 2024.
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“Cuba slowly gets power back after third nationwide blackout in six months”
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Read at The Telegraph →Attributes the blackout to the Trump administration's January oil cutoff and long-standing U.S. sanctions framed as regime-change tools that harm civilians.
“Humanitarian impact on medical care, water systems, and daily life for 9.6 million residents”
Attributes repeated outages to decades of socialist mismanagement, aging infrastructure, and lack of market incentives under centralized control.
“Systemic failures of command economy rather than external sanctions”
Attributes the collapse to state monopoly over energy with no private property or price signals, making the grid inherently fragile.
“Domestic authoritarian control as the primary constraint on reliability”
Notes that eight blackouts predate the January policy and questions whether external sanctions are over-emphasized relative to internal governance choices.
“Shared assumption across other views that U.S. actions are the decisive external variable”
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