Cuba’s fragile electrical infrastructure buckled once more on Thursday, plunging the island’s eastern provinces into a major blackout. In Havana, where authorities had already been rationing power, outages stretched to a punishing 24 consecutive hours. The collapse is the latest in a series of grid failures that have battered the country, deepening economic hardship for millions of Cubans and underscoring the dire state of the nation’s aging energy systems.
Walter Murrow
May 15, 2026
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