Cuba is struggling through its worst energy crisis in living memory as the US-imposed blockade on oil continues. CNN’s Patrick Oppmann’s night drive through Havana reveals a city increasingly plunged into darkness, with exasperated residents enduring hot, sleepless nights without power.
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Cuba's electricity grid has collapsed six times this year, leaving residents on the communist-run island scrambling to cook, wash, and pump water during unpredictable bursts of power that sometimes arrive in the middle of the night. Leidis Rodríguez, a 72-year-old Havana resident, found herself boiling beans at 3 a.m. one morning this week after hours […] The post Cuba's grid collapses six times in 2026 as U.S. oil pressure leaves Havana cooking beans at 3 a.m. appeared first on American Almanac .
Cuba's electricity grid has collapsed six times this year, leaving residents on the communist-run island scrambling to cook, wash, and pump water during unpredictable bursts of power that sometimes arrive in the middle of the night. Leidis Rodríguez, a 72-year-old Havana resident, found herself boiling beans at 3 a.m. one morning this week after hours of unbroken darkness. When the lights flickered on, she shouted to her family. The Associated Press reported that a 20-minute return of electricity now counts as a small event worth celebrating in Cuba's capital, a city where outages stretch 12, 30, or more hours at a stretch with no schedule and no warning. The crisis has been building for five years, fed by a crumbling energy grid,…Open
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up American intelligence operations inside Cuba in recent months, deploying spies and assets to the island as part of a broader campaign to force the communist government into political and economic reforms, or push it from power entirely. Two people familiar with the plans told Politico that the effort […] The post Trump administration expands CIA operations in Cuba to pressure communist regime appeared first on American Almanac .
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up American intelligence operations inside Cuba in recent months, deploying spies and assets to the island as part of a broader campaign to force the communist government into political and economic reforms, or push it from power entirely. Two people familiar with the plans told Politico that the effort includes an increased CIA presence on the island, paired with tightened sanctions, a cutoff of Venezuelan oil shipments, public messaging campaigns aimed at the Cuban people, and legal action against former Cuban leader Raul Castro. The scope of the intelligence buildup remains undisclosed, and four agencies, the CIA, the White House, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the…Open
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