Kuba, another Blackout. Electrical network failure

The Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mine announced on the website X that the failure led to a decrease in electricity production in the western part of the country, which resulted in a “collapse of the national electrical system”. “Work in the process of restoring” energy is underway – added.

The independent portal 14medio writes about “Total Blackout”, as a result of which “once again the country completely sank into the dark”. The sources of the portal have confirmed the lack of power supply in many cities and provinces. This is the first such extensive Blackout this year – said 14medio.

Cuba For many months he has been struggling with a serious energy crisis, lack of fuel and power shortage in the electrical network. From October to December 2024, total Blackouts occurred several times, and frequent intervals in power supply deepened the dissatisfaction of the inhabitants and became the cause of protests.

The current economic and social crisis on the island ruled by the communists is considered one of the most severe revolution from the 1950s conducted under Fidel Castro. There is a lack of electricity, but also the first necessities, including food, medicines and fuels.

Local media reports show that there is even a shortage of coffee grown on this island.

As noted by the daily “Granm”, the main press body of Kuba's communist party, increasing coffee deficiencies is the result of a decrease in production caused by a lack of hands to work on plantations, a phenomenon, as the newspaper adds unprecedented in the first years after the Cuban revolution.

The independent Radio Marti notes that the first years of the communist system in Cuba were marked by record production of coffee. In 1961 it reached 60.3 thousand tons.

According to the data of the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, by the mid -1970s decade of the 1970s, the annual coffee production dropped to 20,000 tons, and then gradually decrease to 10,000 tonnes in 2022. It is currently estimated at less than 6,000 tons a year.

The radio station notes that the production of coffee in Cuba would be even lower, were it not for foreign companies investing in plantations, mainly with Italian. In the case of rice crops, projects on the island of investors with Vietnam.

Social activist Yasser Sosa cited by Radio Marti said that along with the growing deficiencies of basic food products this year, the phenomenon of malnutrition of the population intensifies in Cuba. He added that it applies especially to seniors and children.

According to the NGO Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH), 89 percent of the population lived in extreme poverty inhabited by 11 million people.

Over half a million people have escaped from the country in the last two years.