{"id":10661,"date":"2025-03-15T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:00:53","slug":"cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/cuba-suffers-nationwide-power-outage-plunging-millions-into-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba suffers nationwide power outage, plunging millions into darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cAt around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,\u201d Cuba\u2019s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            It marks the latest in a series of failures on the Caribbean island struggling with creaking infrastructure, natural disasters and economic turmoil.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Cuban officials have previously blamed US economic sanctions, which increased under the previous administration of President Donald Trump, for further crippling an already ailing energy sector.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Critics also fault a lack of investment in infrastructure by the communist government.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            For nearly a week in October, most of Cuba suffered near-total blackouts, the worst energy outages in decades.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba\u2019s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness. \u201cAt around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,\u201d Cuba\u2019s Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}