Cuba faces power shortage and Trump threat

NPR - Another catastrophic collapse of Cuba's electricity grid yesterday left nearly 11 million people without power. This outage is not the first across the entire island, but it is the largest since the U.S. began blocking oil to Cuba in January. The interruption of service comes as Trump vowed yesterday that he would have the "honor of taking Cuba."

Cuba’s power grid has been failing for decades, and the government hasn’t been able to keep up with the maintenance, NPR’s Eyder Peralta says. The country relies on imported oil for its thermal power plants, and it hasn’t received any for months. ...

President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed last week that negotiations with the U.S. are underway. Over the weekend, Cuba announced it would release 51 prisoners arrested during protests in 2021 and allow Cubans living abroad to invest in and own businesses in Cuba. Peralta says it’s unclear if these concessions will satisfy Washington.