HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's electrical grid went down Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, a day after a massive blackout swept across the Caribbean island and with no official estimate for when service will be restored.
HAVANA — Cuba's electrical grid went down Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, a day after a massive blackout swept across the Caribbean island and with no official estimate for when service will be restored.
"The power went out at 8 in the morning and it is now 5 in the afternoon and there is no electricity anywhere," said Luis González, a 73-year-old retiree in Havana. "The situation has worsened in recent days," Marrero said in a special address on national television in the early hours of Friday."We must be fully transparent ... we have been halting economic activities to ensure energy for the population."
Marrero sought to provide reassurance about the outage, citing an expected influx of fuel supply from Cuba's state-owned oil company.
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