Cuba suffered its third nationwide power outage since the beginning of the year on Monday, the state electricity company said. The impoverished island was already struggling to maintain power before U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an oil blockade in January, which drained already dwindling fuel supplies from Cuba’s power plants.“The national power generation system has experienced a complete blackout,” UNE Electricity wrote on X, adding that it was “investigating the cause.” The outage was the eighth since late 2024 on the island of 9.6 million people. The outage comes as the government imposes increasingly severe blackouts across the country – with blackouts lasting more than 24 hours in parts of Havana and more than 70 hours in some rural areas – in an increasingly desperate effort to save fuel. For years, blackouts have been a feature of life on the communist-ruled island, where the power generation system, largely made up of aging Soviet-era factories, has fallen into disarray.
