{"id":1372400,"date":"2026-03-22T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/blackout-after-blackout-cuba-faces-another-complete-blackout\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:47:20","slug":"blackout-after-blackout-cuba-faces-another-complete-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/blackout-after-blackout-cuba-faces-another-complete-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout after blackout: Cuba faces another complete blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xhiud001q27qd6wsa87uw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><strong><span dir=\"auto\">On Saturday, March 21, Cuba suffered its second power outage in a week, leaving more than 10 million people without electricity.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xhiud001q27qd6wsa87uw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><span dir=\"auto\">The country&#8217;s Ministry of Energy reported this on social media. &#8220;There was a complete shutdown of the National Electric System,&#8221; the message stated, in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xhiud001q27qd6wsa87uw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kuba.png\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xhiud001q27qd6wsa87uw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><span dir=\"auto\">Just before the March 21 power outage, the country&#8217;s state-owned electricity company announced on<\/span> <span dir=\"auto\">social media that it expected a power shortage of more than 1.7 megawatts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xozj200013b6ruuh50uyu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The previous nationwide blackout, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/\">&#8220;Pryamoy,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ru\/na-kube-proyzoshel-massov-y-blekaut-yz-za-blokad-nefty-ssha\/\">occurred in Cuba on March 16<\/a> , due to a failure in the national power grid caused by a blockade of oil supplies from the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xozj200013b6ruuh50uyu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The US began this blockade at the beginning of the year and has not relaxed it even in the face <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ru\/ssha-oslabyly-sanktsyy-protyv-yranskoy-nefty-no-est-niuans\/\">of the easing of sanctions<\/a> against Iranian and Russian oil due to the closure of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xozj200013b6ruuh50uyu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">US President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ru\/operatsyia-venesu-la-v-kachestve-prymera-tramp-hotovyt-smenu-vlasty-na-kube\/\">Trump makes no secret of his intentions to seize the island<\/a> in order to replace the communist regime.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmn0xozj200013b6ruuh50uyu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/na-kubi-spalakhnuly-masshtabni-protesty-cherez-blekauty-ta-defitsyt-prodovolstva\/\">, anti-government protests erupted in the city of Mor\u00f3n, Cuba, due to power outages and food shortages<\/a> . During the demonstration, protesters attacked the Communist Party office and several government institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 21, Cuba suffered its second power outage in a week, leaving more than 10 million people without electricity. The country&#8217;s Ministry of Energy reported this on social media. &#8220;There was a complete shutdown of the National Electric System,&#8221; the message stated, in particular. Just before the March 21 power outage, the country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1372392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1372400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372402,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372400\/revisions\/1372402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}