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15.05.26 - 07:48
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Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink (The Guardian)
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Minister Vicente de la O Levy says 'Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel' as rolling power blackouts increaseProtests have erupted across Havana after Cuba's energy minister revealed that the country had completely run out of diesel and fuel oil amid a US blockade that has strangled the island of fuel.Residents took to the city's streets late on Wednesday shouting “turn on the lights”, banging pots and pans, and setting fire to piles of rubbish to express their misery in the face of blackouts which can last 22 hours or more. Continue reading......
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02.05.26 - 01:27
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In Charts: Communist Cuba′s Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade (ZeroHedge)
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In Charts: Communist Cuba's Lights Dim Amid US Oil Blockade
Authored by Sylvia Xu, Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Blackouts, shortages, fuel rationing, and empty streets now define daily life in Cuba.
People wait to fill their water containers during a nationwide blackout in Havana on March 22, 2026. Cuban authorities scrambled on March 22 to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a U.S. oil blockade. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images
Although the norm for decades, these hardships have reached catastrophic proportions as the island nation suffers its worst energy and economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Cuba's energy infrastructure is collapsing amid restrictions on oil imports from its key ally Venezuela, along with a U.S. military operation that has further disrupted Venezuela's production and shipping.
With the country's main supplier impaired, Havana i...
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