Cuba suffers second island-wide blackout in a week amid Trump fuel blockade
- US President Donald Trump has placed the Caribbean island under a de facto oil blockade, straining its ageing power grid.
- Cuba has reported its second nationwide blackout in less than a week, plunging the island into darkness shortly before evening.
- On Friday, the Union Electrica de Cuba, the state-owned utility in charge of the electrical grid, announced that the outage began at 4:30pm local time (20:30 GMT).
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- US President Donald Trump has placed the Caribbean island under a de facto oil blockade, straining its ageing power grid.
- Cuba has reported its second nationwide blackout in less than a week, plunging the island into darkness shortly before evening.
- On Friday, the Union Electrica de Cuba, the state-owned utility in charge of the electrical grid, announced that the outage began at 4:30pm local time (20:30 GMT).
Sources: Al Jazeera