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Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power (https://www.reuters.com)

88 points by geox 3 days ago | 51 comments | View on ycombinator

lefrenchy 3 days ago |

Am I crazy for thinking this is possibly a US cyber attack on the infrastructure to justify Trump's coming actions?

burnt-resistor 2 days ago |

Just like overthrowing Iran's, Mosaddegh because Cuba's, Maduro, et. al. litany of past and current regimes globally aren't slavishly servile, Cuba's, Iran's, Venezula's, and many other peoples suffer because an imperial superpower is denied extraction of money, resources, and compliance from a government, its land, and its people.

Cuba Plunged Into a Nationwide Blackout Trump demands taking it or overthrowing regime; testimonials from a local and a visitor (video, English) begins at 35:56

https://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2026-03... (SD, mp4)

https://ewheel.democracynow.org/dn2026-0317.mp4.torrent (HD, torrent of mp4) *

https://archive.org/details/dn2026-0317_vid *

* Available several hours from time of writing

Protesters Reportedly Attack Communist Party Office in Cuba as Energy Crisis Deepens (yesterday)

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/16/headlines/protesters_...

dzonga 3 days ago |

Cuba should've learned from China.

Communism with Cuban characteristics.

Then got energy independent-- by importing a lot of solar panels, wind turbines from China.

then they wouldn't be suffering an energy embargo from the US.

for the few cases they need hydrocarbons import from Russia.

bitwize 3 days ago |

"Communism can never work," says leader of country that routinely sabotages or outright overthrows communist governments.

g8oz 3 days ago |

The lawless bully nation known as the United States is strangling Cuba. They manufactured this crisis by threatening sanctions on anyone who sends oil to the country. An act of outrageous imperial aggression.

JohnnyLarue 3 days ago |

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DivingForGold 3 days ago |

Cubans have horses and depend on then a lot. Why not have horses or oxen running around in a circle or the method in this video for powering a generator or alternator ?

https://youtu.be/dpq3tXz0QoI?t=217