AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Cuba's grid collapses six times in 2026 as U.S. oil pressure leaves Havana cooking beans at 3 a.m.
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