Major blackout leaves millions without power as Cuba’s energy crisis deepens

The government’s electric utility said on social platform X that the outage affected people from the western town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey. - (Associated Press)

Millions of people across Havana and western Cuba were plunged into darkness on Wednesday following a widespread power outage, marking the latest crisis for an island grappling with severe energy shortages and a crumbling electric grid.

The extensive blackout, which stretched from the western town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey, was triggered by the shutdown of one of Cuba's largest thermoelectric power plants.