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HAVANA — The electricity went out Friday in Cuba, affecting the entire island's population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry.

On Friday evening, authorities announced power had been restored to about 20,000 residents of the capital, Havana, which has a population of 2 million.

Power outages have been chronic in Cuba for years and have worsened in recent months. But the situation was so critical in the past three days that the government took measures to keep the lights on.

Over 200 sanctions, bringing a poor country to its knees in the name of regime change!

A wicked act made more pronounced by Trump and continued by Biden! Kamala is bound to change the m/o!

In reply to XDFIX

While doing 'bi-niz' with a country they carpet-bombed to stop communism but is now ruled by the communists who defeated them..
Trading with China...doan let mi start.

In reply to Brerzerk

And a one would want to tell me that wickedness nuh deh bout, anytime I see evil, I have to put on my Christocentric hat!

Cuba is only suffering because of so many so called good and decent countries are in lock step
with America and its policies.
The shame is on them rather than America...you can draw inference with the elections in America.
Everyone knows Trump is a bastard in all way abhorrent to decency,morals and competence but look at his
support....can't blame Trump..he is what he is but those basking in his low light, are the real problem.

So cry shame on those countries from all continents that have been captive of America's depraved
actions.
At the top of the tree is the UN a body without soul, power, influence or credibility except at the behest of the USA.
All are guilty.

Yes, America practices economic terrorism on countries who do not submit to their ways. What many of these American policy makers are not wise enough to understand, because of their sanctions the systems that they want to breakup become stronger in the affected countries. It is highly likely that Cuba's ruling regime would not have survived this long if Cuba was not under sanction and their people were free to trade and travel.

In reply to hubert

If America was decent, Trump would not be on the campaign stump! At the same time, if the Democrats were any good in putting people first, Trump and Kamala would not be running a race so close!

America has always been hypocritical in its policies!

CNN
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Millions of Cubans remained without power for a third day in a row Sunday after fresh attempts to restore electricity failed overnight

The Cuban Electrical Union said about 16% of the country had had power restored when the aging energy grid again overloaded late Saturday. Officials did not provide an update on when service would be reestablished.

This marks the third full collapse of Cuba’s energy grid since Friday, and most in the 10 million-strong country have had their access to power interrupted the whole time.

T&T and the Caribbean has been calling for the lifting of the embargo at every opportunity for the last 40 years with no meaningful support.

It's just pure wickedness that this spite and curse on generations of Cubans is being allowed to continue. Not only a great injustice to the Cuban people and its general outlook, but it also deprives others the opportunity to visit an amazing vibrant properly functioning country instead of a broken romantic retro - distopia it has become .


End the spite now !

In reply to Brerzerk

Biggest hypocrites ever..can't stand it anymore..

In reply to XDFIX

Hypocritical is a compliment
The success and growth of BRICS entity are critical to the world's advancement and betterment.

Cuba's problem is lack of money, if they had money, they could bypass the embargo.

How do you guys square with the fact that Cuba is a one party state for the last 65 years...?

No other political parties are allowed, no dissent is allowed, no freedom of speech, no protest is tolerated...

All of the above transgressions can land a person in prison for a minimum of five years.

We 'progressives' in the English speaking Caribbean tend to hold the Cuban people to a higher standard...
Very few of them support a communist doctrine..

That situation has been foisted on them in the form of a 65 year social experiment..

Most Cubans would leave the island if they had the means.

You guys should recall the events that led up to the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, when a few brave souls invaded the Peruvian embassy in Havana and asked for asylum..

Ten thousand Cubans descended on the embassy compound the following day...

That single act should have shown the communist government that everyone in the island was not happy with the way things were being run.

It was a great opportunity for compromise between the Castro's and the people.

That was 44 years ago.
The people are tired, fed up and desperate.... While the leadership keeps singing the same excuses..

Every Cuban who lives outside of the island, wants regime change .. while we English speaking Caribbeans are siding with the communist government...

All Caribbean countries live on the coattails of the West, in general, and America, in particular.

Cuba’s obsolete electricity infrastructure is keeping the country in the dark

In reply to camos

Cuba's problem biggest problem was the fall of their primary benefactor and protector, the Soviet Union.

They could, and did withstand the American embargo with Soviet aid. But when that aid dried up it was always going to be hard road for Cuba going forward.

In reply to Elsie

No we are siding with the Cuban people, that's the bigger picture here . You mean the US wants to give them the same kind of 'democracy' and 'freedom' they gave to Iraq and LIbya ? Once great nations now shadows of themsleves .Man down with the US and their imperialism and 'freedom' .

Cuba is no threat to anyone and had they been allowed to prosper their politics would've advanced by now, ironically it's the embargo that has kept their political system stuck in time as everything else.

Cuba would've been one of the richest and most powerful countries in the the hemisphere ...

I hope you know the current iteration of US government system and state isn't the last and they would.have bigger problems than maintaining this spiteful campaign against the Cuban people.

The US has weaponized the right to live and prosper . Sick of the US and their games .

*You sound like them American politicians pretending they can't do anything about the genocide taking place under their watch because 'terrorists' , sick of the dehumanizing of humans for political agenda and interests, f@ck the US and their system , doesn't work for everyone. We are talking about millions and millions of people suffering because of the US NOW !

In reply to bravos

This is without a doubt your best post - ever.

Bravo dude. *Thumbs up emoji*

In reply to SnoopDog

Better than 'fellas hold that 1,2,3,4,5 ' etc ? I doubt ..

In reply to bravos

Bravos... if as you say, you are siding with the Cuban people; how about helping them petition for voting rights...!

That way they can determine who should lead the country; and which system of government they want to live under.

In reply to hubert

Anyone who steps out of line will get. UShurt on them too,. That's whe even Canada under daddy Trudeau only did just so much and not more. Imagine as Minnesota Gov Jesse Ventura perhaps did more for/with Cuba than the rest of America

In reply to Elsie

Lift the embargo first and then tings can be reorganized and then there can be negotiations going forward, CARICOM always maintained they would assist and I know for a fact that CUBA will be guided by their humble and well-intentioned neighbors who have embraced them despite the US cut eye/slant eye.

Furthermore Cubans have progressed despite the curse on their country, so much so they have produced the highest rate of doctors in the world as a country .

That should tell anyone what they need to know about Cuba and the Cuban people, including the leaders ! Even a kid can negotiate with such people, but the US policy of our way or no way is the biggest problem here, not the Cuban leadership, they actually guided the country in the right direction despite the handicap .

But we know the US policies can change on a whim, from the people who brought you, "we don't negotiate with terrorists", to arming terrorists with sophisticated weapons. Sick and tired of them, they hold no monopoly on what is morality in politics .

Free Cuba now ! Regime change will come after .

Understand that its the US that's prolonging this thing ,they basically keeping a situation alive that doesn't exist !! Not even the Soviet Union exists anymore, they have Cuba's politics stagnated and stuck in a time that has already gone by .

The first step to change is lifting the embargo, the Cuban people have suffered enough .

Tear down the wall !

In reply to Elsie

Maan US trades with Communist Vietnam a country they lost over 50,000 men in.

In reply to Brerzerk

Hypocrites ! There's even a new Vietnamese electric car in the US ...but Chinese cars are a threat to national security, becuase its convenient.. lol ..

In reply to Elsie

Most Jamaicans would and it's a democracy!

In reply to Brerzerk

Exports to Cuba



Exports to Vietnam


Help me out here.. I'm not an economist.. But I did recall reading that most of the Poultry Products in Cuba comes from the US

In reply to XDFIX


Ha Ha Ha, you got me there Bro...

Even though I don't believe you...

In reply to bravos

I visited Cuba a year ago. When the Cubans say "Free Cuba Now" they cuss their own Government...no longer mention the US blockade.

I had a very good friend in Cuba, a 24 year old boxer who took me around Havana, Francisco was his name. Thanks to him I had a great experience in Cuba.

Unfortunately recently he died after hitting his head at a family pool party. Family had to sell their appliances and furniture to buy medicine to try to keep him alive.

Even their health system is failing them. Cubans have to source medicine from abroad to maintain their elderly in good condition.

There is a song by Cuban singers which calls for the end of "Patria y Muerta" .....they are asking for "Patria y Vida"

Something has to change. The average persons in Cuba are struggling.

In reply to Trex

No man is an Island. The best government in di worl' (anyone) cannot survive under the kinda sanctions the island nation of Cuba is under

In reply to Brerzerk

No man is an island indeed. Cubans are suffering in Cuba now.

Cuban Government should ask themselves if the approach they are taking is too extreme without having the support of a super power.


Not taking blame away from the American economic blockade, mind you....but at the end of the day the Government's main responsability is to take care of its people.

By the way, if Cuba should open up one day... Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean will lose foreign investment to Cuba with its 100% literacy rate and near 0% crime rate.

In reply to Trex

that would change in a minute, along with drugs and homelessness.

In reply to Trex

In the short term, Spanish would be an issue a la Haiti, French is an issue!

In reply to Brerzerk

If things are so bad why doesn’t the government adopt capitalism? Or is the answer for the US lift the embargo first and then Cuba will consider capitalism, as suggested by Bravos?

In reply to camos

Ha. Dem teif me belongings a few years ago in a resort.
Also dem rob me when we went to the artisian market. I had to pull dem up.

In reply to WI_cricfan

Yeah, a zero crime rate is a stretch; no country on earth is without crime!

Worsening economic conditions in Cuba have been accompanied by increases in theft and other petty crimes.

In reply to XDFIX
Evil

It is the Open door policy of the USA for cubans to entice them to leave. That is the motivation, and if such a policy is made available to any of our countries in the region, and other places in the world, their people would be lining up to run to the USA as well. We must call on the USA to end this wicked embargo, and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. I have yet to hear any Caribbean leader interfering in the USA elections where a pervert, a convict, a despicable racist could be elected as president. No Caribbean leader, including Cuba, has called for sanctions against the USA if he is elected, even though he represents everything we were taught not to be. Lift the embargo, and give Cuba a chance to prove its self in a free world. They are no threat to anyone.