Cuba has restored power after a nationwide blackout that lasted more than 29 hours, compounded by United States cutting off its oil supply, Reuters reports.
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By midday on Tuesday, energy workers successfully brought the decades-old Antonio Guiteras power plant back online, restoring the grid.
The Trump Administration used Cuba’s grid collapse as another opportunity to escalate his rhetoric against the nation, with a State Department calling the blackout a “symptom of the failing regime’s incompetence”.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel fired blame back at Washington, saying, “They intend to and announce plans to take over the country, its resources, its properties, and even the very economy they seek to suffocate in order to force us to surrender,” he wrote on social media shortly after power was restored.
Cuba has yet to say what caused the nationwide grid failure.
According to Reuters, most Cubans were seeing 16 or more hours of blackout daily even before the latest grid collapse.
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