March ⁠21 (Reuters) - Cuba's national ⁠electric grid collapsed on ‌Saturday, the country's grid operator said, leaving ​around 10 million ⁠people without ⁠power amid a U.S.-imposed ⁠oil ‌blockade that has ⁠crippled the island's already ​obsolete ‌generation system. The power failure ⁠was ​the second nationwide since the ⁠beginning of the blockade, ​with the previous one occurring last ⁠Monday. Grid operator UNE announced the outage on social ​media and ⁠said it would ​continue giving ‌updates. (Reporting by Sarah ​Kinosian; Editing by Nia Williams)

Source: The Star March 22, 2026 04:52 UTC