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In the socialist and healthcare paradise that is Cuba, the regime can’t keep the lights on. Another failure of the electricity grid struck Saturday evening and continued into Sunday, blacking ...
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Cuba is reeling after a powerful Category 3 hurricane ripped across the island and fierce winds knocked out the country’s power grid.
Cuban officials said they had begun to restore some power Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out electricity to the entire island.
Foreign Affairs The Lights Go Out in Cuba The island nation reaches its breaking point after a generation of infrastructural degradation.
Lights in Cuba slowly came back on Wednesday night, one day after 11 million Cubans were plunged into darkness after Hurricane Ian wiped out the country’s entire power grid. Ian, which made l… ...
Power was slowly being restored across most of Cuba on Sunday, after nearly 40 hours without electricity, in the island's fourth major blackout in six months. Cuba gradually turning lights back on ...
Hurricane Ian knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it slammed into the island’s western tip as a major hurricane Tuesday.
Ian hit a Cuba that has been struggling with an economic crisis and has faced power outages in recent months.