Cuba goes dark: US 'energy blockade' or a failed system?
The US has blocked oil tankers bound for Cuba — the tightest squeeze since the Missile Crisis — and the island now suffers blackouts of up to 20 hours a day.
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Cuba and UN human-rights experts call the tanker blockade collective punishment — 'energy starvation' that cuts fuel for power plants and inflicts severe humanitarian harm on ordinary Cubans.
From Washington's side, the pressure aims to force change on a government whose own mismanagement and crumbling, oil-dependent grid are the deeper cause of the blackouts.
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