Cuba on Friday saw its second nationwide blackout in five days,
DW reports.
The island nation's electricity grid has crumbled amid a six-month US fuel blockade and already-dilapidated energy infrastructure.
This is Cuba's ninth nationwide power outage since 2024, and the fourth in 2026.
State electricity company UNE said in a post on X that there had been a "total collapse of the national electric system" at 4:30 p.m. local time (2030 UTC).
"Protocols are being activated to begin the recovery process," Cuba's Energy Ministry said on social media.
There was no immediate explanation of the blackout from Cuban authorities.
Authorities attributed Monday's outage to voltage instability and low levels of electricity output. Most of the country was reconnected to the grid by late Tuesday.
