Posted on 10/20/2024 5:34:03 PM PDT by dynachrome
Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours as a looming hurricane threatened to wreak further havoc on the island's decrepit infrastructure. Cuba earlier on Sunday had said it was making headway restoring service after multiple false starts, though millions of people remained without electricity more than two days after the grid's initial collapse. "Restoration work began immediately," the country's energy and mines ministry said on X. The clock was ticking as Hurricane Oscar bore down on the Caribbean island on Sunday, bringing strong winds and rain to northeastern Cuba and threatening to further complicate the government's efforts to reestablish service. Cuba's meteorological survey warned of "an extremely dangerous situation" in eastern Cuba. The entire region was largely without electricity or communication ahead of the storm, which packed winds as high as 100 mph (161 kph). The Communist-run government canceled school through Wednesday - a near unprecedented move in Cuba - citing both the hurricane and the ongoing energy crisis. Officials said only essential workers should report to work on Monday.
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Isn’t everything free there?
“Cuba depends on imports to feed its largely obsolete, oil-fired power plants. Fuel deliveries to the island have dropped significantly this year as Venezuela, Russia and Mexico, once important suppliers, have slashed their exports to Cuba.
Ally Venezuela - struggling to supply its own market - cut by half its deliveries of subsidized fuel to Cuba this year, forcing the island to search for more costly oil on the spot market.
Mexico, another frequent supplier, appeared also to have cut fuel flows to Cuba during a presidential election year.”
USA Today called this a humanitarian crisis.
The only humanitarian crisis there is is that communists run Cuba..
Do you suppose this would make Libs realize the importance of energy independence? Naaah!
Prayers up for the Cuban people.
BEFORE the storm??? WTH...
Does that affect Gitmo?
I imagine they have pretty good back up systems.
NYT: “Cuba’s electric infrastructure does NOT fail due to the hurricane!”
communism on the other hand...
Prayers up for the Cuban people.
My brother in law does mission trips there and says it’s horribly mismanaged. Havana is full of whores and money and everywhere else is ghetto.
The Dims in the U.S: are jealous of how easily the Cuban communists deprive their citizens of a simple thing like electricity.
Watch Biden send “help” there moreso than to NC.
And as usual, the MSM blames our economic embargo, not their own officials or communism, for the crisis.
All that money that was supposed to maintain and repair their grid somehow went poof.
...who might not be Communists. The Commies reap what they sow.
Are the soldiers similar to the ones in North Korea?
Send them all our pseudo-legal Haitians.
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