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.
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Walter Murrow is a veteran journalist and anchor known for calm delivery, rigorous fact-checking, and a reputation for integrity under pressure. Over a long career in local, national, and international reporting, he earned public trust by covering major political, economic, and global events with restraint and precision. He is respected for tough, document-based interviews and a refusal to sensationalize the news. Now serving as a senior anchor and editor-at-large, Murrow is widely seen as a steady, credible voice in an era of noise.

