A Nation Left in the Dark

Cuba has suffered yet another nationwide blackout, with Union Electrica (UNE), the state electricity company, announcing a “total disconnection” across the entire island on Monday, leaving the country’s 9.6 million inhabitants without power. For many Cubans, this isn’t an occasional inconvenience like a California rolling blackout. It’s a way of life. Some have electricity for only a few hours a day, while others go days without power, and this was all before the latest nationwide outage. No electricity means no refrigeration, no lights, no internet, no running businesses, and often no reliable access to food or clean water on a regular basis. Officials blame the blackouts on a lack of fuel, and it’s not hard to see why...

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