An islandwide blackout strikes Cuba for the second time this week

France 24 reports that an islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday, the second such outage to hit the country in a single week. The nation of nearly ten million people is grappling with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages, which France 24 attributes to a U.S. energy blockade.

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