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(Bloomberg) — Cuba suffered a nationwide blackout on Friday, the second in less than a week, as the communist-run country grapples with an aging power grid, chronic fuel shortages and the threat of further US sanctions that have already hampered access to fuel and financing.
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Authorities have activated protocols to recover service, the Energy Ministry said in a post on X.
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Also on Friday, a group of US representatives from Florida and New Jersey urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to sanction Cuba’s state-run entity that operates its overseas medical missions. The lawmakers — Representatives María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Christopher Smith — argue in a letter that Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos exploits Cuban healthcare professionals and generates revenue that helps sustain the island’s one-party rule.
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Cuba, a Caribbean island of 10 million people 90 miles south of Florida, had restored power across about three quarters of the country as of July 7 after the grid suffered a total collapse the day before. The Cuban government blames US President Donald Trump’s administration for imposing a near-total energy blockade and ever-tighter sanctions for the frequent outages and general malaise while the US counters that its outdated political and economic model is responsible for the collapse.
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Economists and energy analysts also point to years of underinvestment and structural weaknesses that have left the grid increasingly vulnerable.
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Rolling outages, fuel shortages and repeated grid failures have become commonplace, raising doubts about whether electricity service can return to normal without significant investment and a more stable fuel supply.
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—With assistance from Gonzalo Soto.
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(Updates starting in first paragraph with news of US representatives urging more sanctions.)
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