After the blackout in Cuba, the main media outlets in the world have echoed the situation after the electrical energy system collapsed following a failure in the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant, leaving the entire island without electricity.
In that sense, the media made known the serious implications of the situation facing Cuba, not only with the blackout, but also the economic and social crisis.
The newspaper The New York Tima, reported in real time on the collapse of the electrical grid, highlighting that this occurred less than 24 hours after the communist regime of Cuba announced emergency measures to save energy, that is, something that already It has been seen coming for a long time.
The renowned portal has emphasized that Cuban citizens are already accustomed to frequent electricity outages, but that in recent days they have spent no more than 20 hours a day without electricity.
For its part, the CNN channel reported in breaking news that the blackout is due to “a failure” in one of the country’s main power plants, highlighting the vulnerability of the Cuban electrical system. The network noted that the lack of electricity has affected the island’s ten million inhabitants and that the regime has been trying to implement emergency measures.
The BBC network also highlighted the situation that citizens are experiencing, mentioning that the dictatorship had closed schools and non-essential sectors in an attempt to mitigate the crisis. In a context of growing social unrest, these measures are expected to provoke even more discontent among the population, which already faces shortages of food and medicine.
The French media Le Monde stressed that the dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reacted on social networks, ensuring that there will be no truce until electrical service is restored on the island.
The note highlights that the Cuban nation has been suffering from the electricity crisis for three decades, intensified by the deterioration of infrastructure and the decrease in the supply of oil from allied countries such as Venezuela.
El País de España also mentioned the issue, summarizing that Cuba is suffering a national blackout and that an energy emergency was declared, due to the collapse of the electrical system caused, according to the prime minister of the island and ally of the regime, Manuel Marrero Cruz, due to “the state of the infrastructure, the lack of fuel and the increase in demand.”
Likewise, media such as ABC and Vanguardia, also from Spain, have echoed the news about the blackout in Cuba.
Likewise, other media have reported that the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Cuba has reported the total disconnection of the island’s energy system, after an incident at the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE), the country’s main station.
In the case of DW Español, they highlighted that Cuba is “again in the dark after new setbacks in the restoration of electrical service.”
The national blackout demonstrates once again the deterioration in services that Cuba has been facing for decades, where its citizens assure that they can no longer tolerate the situation and through social networks ask for the resignation of the communists.
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