Havana, March 16, 2025 (AFP) - Cuba gradually turning lights back on after island-wide blackout

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2025-03-16

Power was slowly being restored across most of Cuba on Sunday, after nearly 40 hours without electricity, in the island's fourth major blackout in six months. Lazaro Guerra, director of the island's Energia Electrica utility, said the Cuban power grid was now again "interconnected" from the western port of Mariel, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Havana, to Guantanamo province in the far east. Power had yet to be restored, however, in part of w......

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