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LatinNews Daily - 15 July 2026
In brief: Cuba suffers third national outage in July
*Cuba’s state power company, Unión Eléctrica (UNE), has announced a nationwide blackout in Cuba, the third in 10 days, having previously suffered outages on 6 and 10 July. The blackout is the fifth complete outage this year and the 10th since October 2024, on international media reports. UNE said that yesterday’s electricity supply stood at 1,020 megawatts (MW) at peak time while maximum demand was 3,150MW, creating a deficit of 2,130 MW. It came as the US administration led by President Donald Trump continues to apply a maximum pressure campaign on Cuba via a crippling oil blockade, among other things, which has left the country without fuel oil and diesel, as part of efforts to push Cuba to make economic and political reforms.
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