Third Nationwide Blackout In 6 Months Plunges Cuba Into Agony

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Havana: Cuba has suffered its third nationwide blackout in six months. State electricity company Union Electrica (UNE) announced a ‘total disconnection’ to the entire island at midday, leaving the country's 9.6 million inhabitants without power while not providing a reason.

The sudden energy collapse has been precipitated by a tightening US fuel blockade that has choked off critical oil supplies since January. Officials stated that a profound lack of fuel heavily complicates the grid restoration process for the island's dilapidated, Soviet-era power plants.

Daily life has turned into absolute agony for residents enduring increasingly draconian power cuts. Outages now routinely stretch over 30 hours at a stretch in parts of Havana and exceed 70 hours in various rural regions.

This widespread systemic paralysis has nudged the island closer to a severe humanitarian emergency. The United Nations warned of escalating regional risks as critical shortages of food, drinking water, medicine, and transport worsen.