The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.
Embargo, not blockade. For a little more than 60 years, not 70. Cuba’s trading partners include Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, from whom they absolutely can import things like transformers.