00:00Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil,
00:04as Havana faces some of its worst rolling blackouts in decades.
00:08The government says the capital is experiencing extended power cuts amid severe fuel shortages.
00:14Its energy and mining minister says outages have increased sharply this week,
00:18with some neighbourhoods going without electricity for up to 22 hours a day.
00:24The situation heightened tensions in a city already exhausted by food, fuel and medicine shortages.
00:30Cuba has installed 1,300 megawatts of solar power over the past two years,
00:35but much of that capacity is lost to grid instability amid the fuel shortages, reducing efficiency and output.
00:42The country's top energy officials said Cuba continued negotiations to import fuel despite the blockade,
00:48but said rising global oil and transportation prices amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were further complicating that effort.
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