Cuba: Power supply has been restored after more than a national failure

In Cuba, power was restored after over a regular power cut across the country – AFP announced today. It was already the sixth specified large break in almost a year and a half in Cuba, which is facing a worsening economical crisis.

The Communist authorities of Cuba announced last night that power had been restored across the country after the power grid crashed on Monday. It was expected to affect about 10 million people in a country with about 11 million inhabitants. According to AFP, electricity has returned to many districts of 1.7 million inhabitants of the capital city of Havana.

After the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on 3 January, the US authorities stopped supplies of Venezuelan oil to Cuba and threatened to impose duties on any country that sells this natural material to Cuba.

At the same time, president Trump's administration intensified the force on the Cuban authorities, calling for them to accelerate reforms towards a marketplace economy. On Friday, president Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed that Cuba had begun talks with the US government.

Yesterday the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the measures announced the erstwhile day by Havana, which let the Cuban diaspora to invest on the island and run private businesses there, are far from “sufficient”.

– Cuba has a ruined economy, and the political and government strategy is incapable to fix it. They must make extremist changes," said Rubio, who has Cuban background.

On Monday, president Donald Trump said that he “believes” that “he will have the honour to take Cuba”, without, however, specifying precisely what he means. president Diaz-Canel responded quickly, who wrote on platform X that "there is 1 thing in the face of Cuba's worst scenario: all external aggressor will encounter indestructible resistance."