Cuba began gradually restoring electricity on Sunday following the island’s second total blackout in less than a week. The energy minister reported that generating units at two thermoelectric plants came back online, and by the afternoon roughly two-thirds of Havana had power. The crisis is being driven by a severe fuel shortage compounded by a U.S. blockade on crude shipments to the island. For millions of Cubans, the rolling outages have disrupted daily life, commerce, and medical services, heightening already intense political pressures both domestically and between Havana and Washington.
