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CUBA: 70% of Cuba’s population has power back after blackout

 

Seventy per cent of Cuba’s population now has power, four days after a nationwide blackout triggered by the collapse of the island’s largest power plant, and as the country recovers from Hurricane Oscar, the government said Tuesday.

“This morning, 70.89 per cent of customers in Cuba have power,” the energy ministry said on X, formerly Twitter, adding that it was working to restore service to more people.

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The lights went out for the Communist-run country’s 11 million people on Friday after the collapse of the Antonio Guiteras plant, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Havana, which crippled the entire power grid.

The situation was complicated by the passage of Oscar, which struck Cuba on Sunday as a Category 1 storm. At least six people have died as a result of the hurricane, according to President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

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