Cuba's power gradually returning after days of nationwide black-out
發佈日期: 2026-03-18 21:26
TVB News
Energy officials said Cuba has reconnected its power grid and brought its largest oil-fired power plant online, putting an end to a nationwide blackout that lasted more than 29 hours. This, amid a US move to choke off the island's fuel supply.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, said the island's current government is incapable of addressing its problems.
After the country's 10 million people had been plunged into darkness overnight, Cuba's national power grid came fully back online. However, officials said power shortages may continue because not enough electricity was being generated.
Cuba has yet to say what caused the nationwide grid failure, the first such collapse since the US cut off the island's oil supply from Venezuela and threatened to slap tariffs on countries that ship fuel to the nation.
Most Cubans, including those in the capital Havana, were seeing 16 or more hours of blackout daily even before the latest grid collapse.
Cuba and the US have opened talks aimed at defusing the crisis, among the most acute since 1959, when Fidel Castro forced Washington's ally Fulgencio Batista from power.
Neither side has provided details of the ongoing negotiations, although US President Donald Trump has portrayed Cuba as desperate to make a deal.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, said the island's current government is incapable of addressing its problems. He called for "new people in charge" of Cuba.
Rubio said: "The bottom line is, their economy doesn't work, it's a non-functional economy, it is an economy that has survived, that revolution, it's not even a revolution, that thing they have, has survived on subsidies from the Soviet Union and now from Venezuela, they don't get subsidies anymore so they're in a lot of trouble. The people in charge of Cuba, they don't know how to fix it, so they have to get new people in charge."
