It’s only 90 miles off the coast of Florida, but it’s a whole different world down in communist Cuba than it is here in the United States.
As the U.S. has ratcheted up economic pressure with punishing sanctions and as the DOJ indicted the late dictator Fidel Castro’s 95-year-old brother Raúl in May for the 1996 killings of four Americans, the island nation has been feeling the heat.
On Monday, they suffered a total blackout, leaving millions of people without power:
BREAKING: Cuba has been hit by another island-wide blackout, leaving roughly 10 million people without power.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 6, 2026
Officials say the cause is under investigation as the country's aging electric grid continues to struggle and fuel reserves run low.
It's the second nationwide blackout… pic.twitter.com/MwFlJNYjUl
BREAKING: Cuba has been hit by another island-wide blackout, leaving roughly 10 million people without power.
Officials say the cause is under investigation as the country's aging electric grid continues to struggle and fuel reserves run low.
It's the second nationwide blackout this year, with hospitals and critical services among those impacted as Cuba faces an ongoing energy crisis.
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Their power operations have always been touch-and-go:
Grid operator UNE said it was investigating the cause of the nationwide blackout.
Cuba has for months suffered from hours-long, and more recently, days-long power outages linked in part to a decrepit grid and a U.S. imposed oil blockade that has cut off the island's fuel supply.
It’s an especially bad time for this to happen for citizens, because we’re right at the height of summer.
The nationwide outage is more bad news for Cubans already exhausted from rolling blackouts that make it impossible for many to work or sleep in the Caribbean summer heat.
Cuba has frequently struggled to keep the lights on during a years-long economic crisis but the Communist-run government has entered unprecedented territory under increased pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nearly two-thirds of the country was already without power when the grid collapsed on Monday.
Cameron Arcand, Senior Washington Correspondent over at our sister site Townhall, reports on the response from the White House:
...As Secretary Rubio has stated, the United States is ready to open a new chapter in the relationship between the United States and Cuba. The only thing standing in the way of a better future are those who control Cuba for their own gain at the expense of the Cuban people."
— Cameron Arcand (@cameron_arcand) July 6, 2026
As the democrat socialists are increasingly taking over the Democratic Party, it’s a stark reminder to those blithering communist idiots like NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: socialism and communism have been tried, they've never worked, and they suck.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Almost ALL of Communist Cuba is WITHOUT POWER, more than 10 million people are suffering and furious
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 6, 2026
Officials are PANICKING trying to get the island back online
This is why President Trump has made clear communism can never be allowed to win in America.… pic.twitter.com/zm7nGqIDOI
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Almost ALL of Communist Cuba is WITHOUT POWER, more than 10 million people are suffering and furious
Officials are PANICKING trying to get the island back online
This is why President Trump has made clear communism can never be allowed to win in America.
Surgeries are being canceled, hospitals are desperate.
Cuba's energy infrastructure is crumbling into the ground, fuel supplies are dwindling, and the regime has NO CLUE how to fix any of it.
DOWN WITH COMMUNISM!
Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
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