Posted on 10/18/2024 2:27:14 PM PDT by Salman
HAVANA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Cuba plunged into a countrywide blackout on Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed and caused the national electrical grid to shut down, its energy ministry said.
The Communist-run government had already closed schools and non-essential industry and sent most state workers home in a last-ditch effort to keep the lights on during severe power shortages.
But shortly before midday, the Antonio Guiteras power plant, the country's largest and most efficient, went offline, prompting a total grid failure and leaving approximately 10 million people without power.
Officials did not say what had caused the plant to fail.
"There will be no rest until (power) is restored," Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on X.
The blackout marks a new low point on an island where life has become increasingly unbearable, with residents already suffering from shortages of food, fuel, water and medicine.
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Cuba to have a baby boom 2025
Guess the USA will have to send whatever remaining heavy-duty transformers we have to Cuba then..
How soon will the people of Cuba wait before revolting. The USA will support them! Cuba Libre is more than a cool drink—it is an idea. Once again it will become a wonderful place to visit and vacation. They will be invaded by an army of 1,000,000 American tourists waving hundred dollar bills. No one can resist them—Communism will fall instantly and a new capitalistic Cuba will rise from the rubble.
Looks like Cuba has officially “run out of other people’s money”
Following the path of South Africa into total collapse.
How soon will the people of Cuba wait before revolting. The USA will support them! Cuba Libre is more than a cool drink—it is an idea. Once again it will become a wonderful place to visit and vacation. They will be invaded by an army of 1,000,000 American tourists waving hundred dollar bills. No one can resist them—Communism will fall instantly and a new capitalistic Cuba will rise from the rubble.
The Cubans have been powerless since Batista was overthrown.
Cuba is going green, we should send Hollywood there for moral support
Sounds like Cuba needs some diversity, so they’ll have some strength. Send them our 25 million illegal aliens ASAP.
Soon Florida will be completely full of Cubans. No one will stay to turn the light out as is already out.
Putin will bail them out.....any month now.
The Cuban Commies have been rationing food and electricity since they took power. It got so bad last March, there were actually street protests. I sincerely doubt that the protestors survived the protest repercussions from the Cuban tyrants. Cuba still maintains Neighborhood Committees to keep order. It is still probably illegal to have “too many books” in your home. They used to accuse such homes of forming a library, which is a crime on that lovely ‘paradise.’
Millions of Cubans lost power 65 years ago, a permanent blackout.
(cue the Sad Trombone “womp-womp-womp”)
FEMA on the way.
How soon will the people of Cuba wait before revolting. T
Never. You do not understand the communists.
People cannot revolt, every attempt will be crushed.
People of Cuba have two choices - escape abroad or hung on, trying to survive, praising Communists for letting them vegetate. .
Cuba is still better off than North Korea, where people are really starving to death. But even there, people are still praising Kim.
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