At 6:15 a.m. it got dark again
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Cuba's power grid collapsed again early Saturday morning (local time), hours after initial progress was reported in restoring power. After the first nationwide power outage on Friday, power went out again across the country on Saturday morning at 6:15 a.m., Cuban state media reported. State electricity company UNE continues to work to restore supplies on the Caribbean island.
Despite the efforts made, Cuba, with few exceptions, remains without electricity, the news portal 14ymedio reported. In the morning, light appeared briefly in some neighborhoods of the capital, Havana, but it went out again. According to the report, electricity has returned to some hospitals in Havana, but temporarily in some cases. She added that there are shops that use generators to provide electricity.
On Friday, the entire electricity grid in the socialist Caribbean nation unexpectedly collapsed. The important Antonio Guiteras thermal power plant has ceased operations. The Ministry of Energy said that this led to a general power outage in the country. Many other power plants were already out of service due to their poor condition.
Cuba is suffering from one of the worst economic crises since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959. Because of the poor state of the aging infrastructure – and also as a result of the more than 60-year-old US trade embargo – Cuba's thermoelectric power plants regularly go off the grid and have to be repaired for use in Emergency situations. Power outages are a daily occurrence across the country.
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