Cuba on Tuesday suffered its third major blackout in little more than a week, leaving a vast swath of the center and east of the island without power, energy officials said on state-run TV.
Cuba´s mid-day television news broadcast said "it was investigating the causes of the {electrical failure}" and that the country´s state-run electrical company had begun work to restore power.
The blackout Tuesday spanned 430 miles from Cienfuegos province in south-central Cuba to Guantanamo, on the far southeastern tip, leaving more than half of the country´s population of 11 million without power. Scattered blackouts were also reported in the capital Havana. The mass electrical outage - the third in a week - left many in Cuba scratching their heads and concerned about what the energy-intensive summer might bring, when many residents crank up their air conditioning to stay cool in the Caribbean heat.
Blackouts in communist-run Cuba - a country already suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine - touch a political nerve and are widely seen as the tipping point that led to anti-government protests in July 2021, the largest since former President Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
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