{"id":13978,"date":"2026-03-22T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/cuba-plunged-into-darkness-amid-nationwide-blackout\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:26:04","slug":"cuba-plunged-into-darkness-amid-nationwide-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/cuba-plunged-into-darkness-amid-nationwide-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba plunged into darkness amid nationwide blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/b624a97c-25ff-11f1-a576-005056bfb2b6\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/EN-20260322-140659-140837-CS.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Cuban authorities scrambled Sunday to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a US oil blockade. Some parts of Havana began to have power again, but others were still dark early Sunday, a day after the energy ministry reported a &#8220;total disconnection&#8221; of the national electric system in the country of nearly 10 million people.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/cuba-plunged-into-darkness-amid-nationwide-blackout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban authorities scrambled Sunday to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3441,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energie","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}