00:00Cuba restored power to nearly half of Havana by Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours after
00:06the national grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade.
00:11The outage followed a major power plant in Nuevitas going offline on Saturday evening,
00:17cutting electricity to around 10 million people. By Sunday, about 500,000 homes and businesses,
00:23as well as 43 hospitals, were back online with the largest oil-fired power plant expected
00:29to resume operation later in the day.
01:13Cuba faces ongoing blackouts as diesel shortages limit power restoration, with many areas
01:20still without electricity. After Washington's deposition of Venezuelan President Nicolas
01:26Maduro on January 3, the U.S. blocked Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, ending a key source
01:33of fuel that Havana previously received on favorable terms. Since then, Cuba has blamed the U.S.
01:39trade embargo and oil blockade for its worsening energy crisis.
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