Overview
- Cuban officials reported a total disconnection of the national electrical system, producing a nationwide blackout and marking the latest collapse of the grid.
- This outage is the seventh major nationwide blackout reported this year and the 12th since late 2024, signaling a pattern of repeated large-scale failures.
- Authorities and reporting link the failures to severe fuel shortfalls and heavy dependence on imported diesel to run thermoelectric plants and backup generators.
- Recent local outages already left Havana without power for more than 30 hours and some provinces for beyond 60 hours, disrupting water delivery, phone networks and business operations.
- The government blames measures it calls a 'de facto energy blockade' by the United States for worsening conditions, while the broader picture points to long-term underinvestment and worn generation infrastructure that could prolong instability.