Cuba restores power after another nationwide blackout
Cuba worked to restore electricity after another nationwide blackout left the island's more than nine million residents facing widespread outages. Al Jazeera called it at least the sixth such failure this year, while France 24 counted seven. Reports attributed the recurring crisis to ageing power plants, fuel shortages and tightened US restrictions.
Why it matters
Repeated national outages threaten essential services and underscore the combined strain of ageing infrastructure and scarce fuel.
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Part of the September 20, 2026 brief.