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Cuba’s ongoing power crisis, plunging more than 10 million people into darkness, serves as a stark reminder of the systemic failures of the repressive communist dictatorship in the Caribbean island struggling with imploding infrastructure, economic turmoil, and natural disasters.
“At 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,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines wrote in a post on X late Friday night.
Alrededor de las 20: 15 horas de esta noche , una avería en la subestación del Diezmero provocó la perdida importante de generación en el occidente de #Cuba y con ello la caída del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional, SEN, ya se trabaja en el proceso de recuperación.
— Ministerio de Energía y Minas de Cuba ?? (@EnergiaMinasCub) March 15, 2025
By Saturday morning, Cuba’s grid operator, UNE, stated that only 225 MW—less than 10% of total demand—was available to supply critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, food centers, and water supply systems, leaving much of the island without power. UNE didn’t provide a timeline on when power generation capacity would return to 100%.
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on X that government agencies are quickly working to restore power across the island.
???CUBA SUFFERS NATIONWIDE POWER OUTAGE, 10 MILLION LEFT IN DARKNESS
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 15, 2025
Cuba's power grid collapsed Friday night, leaving over 10 million people without electricity in yet another major blackout.
Footage from Havana shows streets and buildings completely dark, with residents… https://t.co/uyV3pKqex4 pic.twitter.com/oLWXMwpgA1
Most Cubans outside the capital, Havana, have been living under months and months of rolling power blackouts.
In October, November, and December, the island’s grid suffered a major blackout:
- October: Cuba Paralyzed By Massive Power Blackout
- December: Total Grid Collapse Strikes Cuba (Again)
UNE officials told Reuters that the latest grid failure originated from an aging transmission line at a substation in Havana, which shorted and triggered a series of failures that ultimately shut down power generation islandwide.
Cuba’s long list of problems—rolling blackouts, food, fuel, and medicine shortages, and the overall chaos plaguing the island—serves as a stark reality that America’s Democratic Party conveniently ignores when discussing the actual consequences of communism.
CC AoC and the other socialists…
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Australia is what it looks like when it is run by Communists #wuhanwong #pekingpenny #liarinthelodge #passionatefingersbowen #eachwayalbo #airbusalbo #upgradealbo They run the power into the ground, they lie, they cheat, they defraud and Australia will end up like Cuba before you know it…. You ahve an opportunity this weekend Australia, it could be the last chance you ever have, punt the Communists to kingdom come once and for all
Maybe if the USA had not sanctioned them for 60 years, things would be different. I don’t support “Communism”, as I am a Voluntaryist, but lets be real in our logic. Your whole logic train is moot if you build it on a false foundation.
You know what socialists used before candles?
Answer: Electricity!!!
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4 more years of potato joe or kammie and we would have been close to this I fear.
No foolin!
I feel this is kind of a –
“This is a taste of how demented we are.” &/o
“Look what we can do!”
South Africa, you’re next.
Perhaps Cuba should emulate Haiti, that capitalist heaven of the entire Caribbean!!!!
I can hear Bernie Sanders saying “Blackouts are a good thing! It means that people have electricity!”
I concur!