Blackout in Cuba leaves millions without power amid US oil chokehold

Latest outage darkens island facing dwindling oil reserves and increasing pressure from Washington
A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba, leaving millions of people in Havana and beyond without power in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and facing increasing pressure from Washington.
Cuba has experienced a series of major blackouts in recent years, even before the US cut off oil shipments to the Caribbean’s largest island. Cuba’s government has attributed its economic crisis to decades of economic sanctions from the US.
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