Cuba reports 2nd nationwide power grid collapse this week

Cuba’s energy ministry said the country’s power grid has collapsed nationwide for the second time this week.

The outage was reported Saturday by Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines, which said the National Electric System, the state-run grid that supplies electricity across the island, suffered a “total disconnection” and that restoration protocols were being implemented.

The ministry did not immediately say what caused the latest failure.

It comes days after Cuban authorities reported another nationwide grid failure on Monday. Service was not fully restored until the following day, and electricity demand remained above available generating capacity during the week.

The latest collapse comes as the Trump administration has imposed what Cuba describes as an energy blockade.

“The United States publicly threatens Cuba, almost daily, with overthrowing the constitutional order by force,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said in a statement Tuesday. “And it uses an outrageous pretext: the severe limitations of the weakened economy they have attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades.”

“They intend and announce plans to take over the country, its resources, its property and even the very economy they seek to suffocate in order to defeat us,” Díaz-Canel added. “Faced with the worst-case scenario, Cuba is accompanied by one certainty: any external aggressor will run into unbreakable resistance.”