Cuba Without Electricity: Third Time This Month More than 10 million people in Cuba lost power due to a complete shutdown of the national electrical system. This is the second outage in a week and the third since March began. The Ministry of Energy cited a failure at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant as the cause.

• Over 10 million people in Cuba lost electricity due to a total shutdown of the power system.
• This is the second power outage in a week and the third in March.
• The failure occurred at a production unit in the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant.
• Cuba partially blames the U.S. energy blockade for the crisis, stating it has interrupted foreign oil imports necessary for power plants.