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Cuba hit with another nationwide blackout amid US fuel blockade

Cover image: A cyclist and vehicles travel along a street as buildings and streetlights remain dark during a power outage in Havana, Cuba on September 18, 2026. © Ricardo Arduengo, Reuters

Cuba suffered a total blackout after the collapse of its electrical grid on Friday. The blackout is the latest of at least six partial or total grid collapses since the beginning of this year, as the island grapples with an ongoing US fuel blockade.

Cuba's electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Friday, ​plunging the nation into darkness and leaving millions without power amid a US pressure campaign that has largely blocked oil from reaching the Caribbean's largest island.

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