A man walks while cars cruise along a street during a blackout in Havana on March 16, 2026. Cuba was still recovering from a nationwide power grid collapse on Monday, the first since the US began blocking fuel supplies from Venezuela earlier this year. US President Donald Trump has spoken frequently in recent weeks about Cuba, predicting an imminent collapse of its communist government. “You know, all my life I’ve been hearing about United States and Cuba, when will the United States having the honor of taking Cuba? Since Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the country has been under a strict economic embargo from the United States.

Source: CNN March 23, 2026 05:27 UTC