From Global News.

Cuba said it had begun efforts early Sunday to restore power after its grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade that has dealt a major blow to the island’s already ailing energy infrastructure.

The grid collapsed Saturday evening after a major power plant in Nuevitas, in eastern Cuba’s Camaguey province, failed and went offline, grid operator UNE said, causing a cascade effect that knocked out power to the nation’s approximately 10 million people.

Cuba’s energy and mines ministry said early on Sunday it had established microsystems – smaller, closed circuits – in all of the island’s provinces to restore power for vital services like hospitals, water supply and food distribution. Saturday’s blackout incident marks the third major power outage this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump began taking measures to block oil from reaching the Caribbean island after Washington deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3. Since then, Trump has cut off Venezuelan exports to Cuba and threatened other countries with punitive tariffs if they sell oil to the island.

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