Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 07/06/2026 10:31:26 AM PDT by CFW
HAVANA, July 6 (Reuters) - Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday at midday, the country's grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people on the Caribbean island nation without power.
Cuba has for months suffered from hours-long, and more recently, days-long power outages linked in part to an ailing grid and a U.S. imposed oil blockade that has cut off the island's fuel supply.
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
The warm suck of Communism. Coming to a city near New York soon.
Absolutely!
Forum could use a “like” function.
What did the communists use before candles for light?
Electric light bulbs.
“The warm suck of Communism. Coming to a city near New York soon.”
NYC residents are clueless about what is coming their way.
Every Mandami supporter thinks he is going to take from the “rich” and give that money to them so THEY can be rich. At that point they’ll stop hating “rich” people. What they don’t realize is that they are the “rich” who will be losing everything. Including their electricity.
You have to beware the scenario where the dims are in the WH and control Congress and NYC gets a large bailout to cover, prolong, and exacerbate the failure...
Someone opened the fridge.
Bingo. Madmani brags that he balanced the budget on the backs of the rich but he actually “balanced” it with a bailout from Albany who raised taxes on everybody. Dumbasses.
👍
There is hope for Cuba but Raul Castro’s grandson wants any modernization to be Cuban like Viet Nam and China’s. In other words no American influence. Kinda hard to do when we’re so close and they need so much so fast. Try this long winded article:
and a U.S. imposed oil blockade that has cut off the island’s fuel supply.
The fruits of pure communism.
Perhaps the answer is a group of Milton Friedman’s Chicago Boys that turned Chile around. That’s not what they have in mind but they got a lotta catching up to do. Start their turnaround with a fireworks display like we had on the 4th.
I think the U.S. has blocked oil from Venezuela from going to Cuba. That is where they were getting most of their oil.
Castro’s pal Che Guevara would have set things right by shooting a few power plant supervisors.
But maybe Cuba doesn’t do that anymore.
Yes, part of Cuba’s problem is the US imposed sanctions. However, more importantly is Cuba is broke and can’t afford to pay for the oil. And, no one will extend them credit. Cuba used to live off Soviet provided cash.
Another reason is Venezuela is no longer providing Cuba oil for free.
By Shola Lawal
Published On 26 Feb 2026
26 Feb 2026
After months of a crippling oil blockade on Cuba imposed by the United States, the fuel-starved country may now see some relief after the US government said it would begin authorising companies to resell Venezuelan oil, even as tensions between the two reach a head.
On Wednesday, the US Department of the Treasury said it would allow the resale of Venezuelan oil for “commercial and humanitarian use” in Cuba as the small island nation faces one of its worst fuel crises in decades.
Cuba uses fossil fuels? I am shocked. The country should have converted to wind and solar. Also with all the sugar produced, it could have make some sugar based fuel and used that fuel to generate power.
Trump’s fault .../sarc
I thought that the USA and Viet Name were getting along quite nicely.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.