Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.
The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.
The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.
BREAKING: Hasan fires back at criticism for staying in a five-star hotel during his “humanitarian aid” trip to Cuba—blames U.S. policy.
“The government makes it illegal for us to stay where we want in Cuba. We have to stay in five-star hotels.” 🤣
pic.twitter.com/h2Rj6mHE8Q— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 22, 2026
THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE THIS 🇨🇺
Members of the VIP flotilla of Pablo Iglesias and Hasan Piker throw food at Cuban children to dance while they record videos for their social networks.
The man recording is saying, how disrespectful is taking advantage of the misery of the Cuban… https://t.co/hJv9T5Ae7B pic.twitter.com/QNe5dlGWCY
— Reynier de la Torre (@ReynierDeLaTor1) March 22, 2026
