HAVANA: Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country’s grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.
Cuba’s grid operator UNE said on social media it was investigating the causes of the blackout, the latest in a series of widespread outages that stem for hours or days and that this weekend sparked a rare violent protest in the Communist-run country.
The United States has tightened the screws this year on long-time foe Cuba since capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro - Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor - in early January.
