00:02Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, as the capital Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in
00:09decades amid a U.S. blockade that has severely restricted the island's fuel supply.
00:15Blackouts have worsened dramatically over the past two weeks across Havana, with many neighborhoods left without electricity for up to
00:2220 to 22 hours a day, heightening tensions in a city already strained by shortages of food, fuel and medicine.
00:30Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines said on Wednesday that the national power grid is now operating entirely on domestic
00:36crude oil, natural gas and renewable energy.
00:40The volumes that are carried out of consumption of fuel for the generation of electricity are in millions of tons.
00:48The sum of the different types of combustion, of crude, of fuel, that we don't have absolutely nothing of fuel,
00:58of diesel, that we don't have absolutely nothing of diesel.
01:01I'm saying it's repetitive.
01:03The only thing we have is gas, with our spouse, which has grown in production.
01:08Cuba has installed 1,300 megawatts of solar power over the past two years, but much of that capacity has
01:16been undermined by grid instability caused by fuel shortages, reducing overall efficiency and output.
01:23Cuba's top energy officials said the country is still seeking fuel imports despite the blockade, but rising global oil and
01:31shipping costs linked to the Iran-Israel conflict are complicating efforts to secure supplies.
01:39Cuba's
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