{"id":116197,"date":"2024-10-20T04:42:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T21:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116197"},"modified":"2024-10-20T04:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T21:42:04","slug":"cuba-suffers-second-power-outage-in-24-hours-realizing-years-of-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116197","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Suffers Second Power Outage in 24 Hours, Realizing Years of Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The experts had warned for years: Cuba\u2019s power grid was on the verge of collapse, relying on plants nearly a half-century old and importing fuel that the cash strapped Communist government could barely afford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday morning their dire predictions came true, as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/18\/world\/americas\/cuba-power-plant-blackout.html\" title=\"\">the entire island plunged<\/a> into the most prolonged blackout it has suffered in the three decades since its former benefactor and steady fuel supplier, the Soviet Union, collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cuban energy officials managed to briefly get power back up to some parts of the island on Friday night. But early Saturday the state\u2019s utility company reported another \u201ctotal disconnection\u201d of the system, the second in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Government officials tried to reassure the public that power would be broadly restored over the weekend, but acknowledged they could not be sure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are estimating there should be important progress today,\u201d Lazaro Guerra, the electricity director for the Ministry of Energy and Mines, said in an interview on state television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBut I cannot assure you that we will be able to have the system fully connected today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/19\/world\/americas\/cuba-power-outage.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experts had warned for years: Cuba\u2019s power grid was on the verge of collapse, relying on plants nearly a half-century old and importing fuel that the cash strapped Communist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116197\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}