{"id":361325,"date":"2026-09-18T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/cuba-hit-with-another-blackout-as-millions-across-island-are-left-without-electricity"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:57:20","slug":"cuba-hit-with-another-blackout-as-millions-across-island-are-left-without-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/cuba-hit-with-another-blackout-as-millions-across-island-are-left-without-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Cuba hit with one other blackout as thousands and thousands throughout island are left with out electrical energy"},"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>Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the blackout on its official X account without giving a cause and added that officials had begun \u201cactivating service-restoration protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Power grid collapses have <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cuba-apagon-cerco-energetico-eeuu-sanciones-1cb80bf2b2e4b77c4124058c568f1915\">become increasingly common<\/a> over the past two years because of the severe economic crisis gripping the island. They have worsened since January, after the United States imposed an energy blockade aimed at forcing a change in Cuba\u2019s political system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The restrictions prevent Cuba from importing the fuel needed to operate its thermoelectric power plants, as well as replacement parts required to maintain infrastructure that in many cases has become obsolete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two most recent nationwide blackouts occurred in early August, following others in July and March, as well as several regional outages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Even when the national power grid is working, Cubans endureoutages lasting more than 30 consecutive hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/cuba-hit-blackout-millions-island-left-electricity-136572161\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA &#8212; Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19675,6935,36963,9980,22658,30932,36964,36962,36961,173],"class_list":["post-361325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-countries","tag-cuba","tag-energy-grid","tag-havana","tag-ministry-of-vitality-and-mines","tag-out-electrical-energy","tag-power-outages","tag-service-restoration-protocols","tag-thermoelectric-energy-vegetation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361325","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=361325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361327,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361325\/revisions\/361327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}