{"id":345086,"date":"2026-03-16T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/cuban-officials-report-an-island-wide-blackout-as-country-struggles-with-energy-crisis"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:13:07","slug":"cuban-officials-report-an-island-wide-blackout-as-country-struggles-with-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/cuban-officials-report-an-island-wide-blackout-as-country-struggles-with-energy-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Cuban officers report an island-wide blackout as nation struggles with vitality disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">HAVANA &#8212; <\/span>Officials in Cuba report an island-wide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X notes a \u201ccomplete disconnection\u201d of the country\u2019s electrical system and says it is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel on Friday warned that the island had not received oil shipments in more than three months and that it was operating on solar power, natural gas and thermoelectric plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A massive outage over a week ago affected the island\u2019s west, leaving millions without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Cuba has blamed its woes on a U.S. energy blockade. President Donald Trump warned in January of tariffs on any country that would sell or provide oil to the island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/cuban-officials-report-island-wide-blackout-country-struggles-131125431\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA &#8212; Officials in Cuba report an island-wide blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6935,614,9980,9075,22658,13506,12067,13505,609,22659,173],"class_list":["post-345086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-havana","tag-miguel-canel","tag-ministry-of-vitality-and-mines","tag-oil-shipments","tag-out-energy","tag-present-oil","tag-president","tag-solar-energy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345088,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345086\/revisions\/345088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}