Cuba’s electrical system has second total outage in the week

“There has been a total disconnection of the Electrical System. The protocols to begin recovery have been activated”, informed the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) of Cuba, according to information from the EFE agency.

Last Monday (6), Cuba had already suffered a general blackout. The cause of Friday’s total disconnection, the ninth reported in the last two years, has not yet been reported.

Claiming that Cuba houses military and intelligence bases belonging to adversaries of the United States, American President Donald Trump threatened at the beginning of the year to impose tariffs on anyone sending oil to the Caribbean country, which worsened the energy crisis that the island was already facing.

Washington has also been increasing pressure on the Castro dictatorship through the intensification of sanctions against the regime, threats that the island will be “next” after American military actions in Venezuela and Iran and the indictment, in May, of former dictator Raúl Castro, for the deaths of four Cuban-American activists in the shooting down of two civilian planes in 1996.