Posted on 03/15/2025 7:07:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.
“At 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,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement.
Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added.
Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used electric torches to navigate the streets.
It marks the latest in a series of failures on the Caribbean island struggling with creaking infrastructure, natural disasters and economic turmoil.
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.
Critics also fault a lack of investment in infrastructure by the communist government.
For nearly a week in October, most of Cuba suffered near-total blackouts, the worst energy outages in decades.
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I think Bernie should be there extolling their virtues and what a great country they are, that’ll help, right?
“To heck with Canada, Cuba should be the 51st.”
For the music and the food, alone! :)
Can’t comment on Mafia-run Cuber.
However, I’m just old enough to have visited Las Vegas when the Mafia was in charge.
What a great, fun and SAFE city was Vegas of the mid-70s.
They have access to every other nation on earth. No one has anything to do with them because their corrupt communist leaders get bank loans and default on them and pocket the money in their Swiss bank accounts. Spanish banks learned this the hard way.
They plowed their farms over and turned to monoculture growing sugar and tobacco and had to start importing food to feed the people. The glorious stupidities of Communism!
Since they have ongoing power shortages it would be a good time to invade Cuba with Communications mostly down.
Once you secure the island and police stations, take a lot of Diesel Generators, get the power back up, open up some Walmarts and car dealerships and you would probably have the backing of the people. Let them vote on whether they want to be the 51st state after a probationary period of de-communistification. I think that we have a lot of capable people in Florida that would provide a good state. government.
And the besebol..
Pete’s leading the invasion! Bring me back some Ropa Vieja! ;)
They defunded my NGO and seized the containers with all my old Car Parts I would have handed out to pay the populace for an insurrection! Alas, will not be on that first ship! (My Spanish is minimal in any case.)
The Army with its generators are on their own with this one!
“Ropa Vieja!” On the TV show “The Connors” I think that is the same as a”Loose Meat” sandwich. (Nasty name for pulled pork or beef!)
‘Ropa Vieja’ translates to ‘Old Clothes.’
Basically slow cooked, shredded beef. Amazing spices!
https://abuelascounter.com/cuban-ropa-vieja-recipe/
Grandma’s old clothes! (Almost as bad as Loose meat!)
It Looks like it would go well on polenta as well as beans and rice.
(On reflection I wonder if Trump could just buy off the Cuban Junta to obtain Cuba? Save the costs and bad PR associated with an of an invasion and we could significantly extend the Perimeter fence at Gitmo. CUBA SLIDE OVER)
What did Cubans use for light before candles? Hat tip to the Plante man.
Cuba’s total exports of $1.6B/year amount to a pitiful $3 per capita per week. Sad.
That’s just hooker and blow money, to Hunter and Co.
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