{"id":17175,"date":"2026-07-11T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/11\/cuba-fourth-nationwide-power-outage-fuel-crisis-us-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:45:21","slug":"cuba-fourth-nationwide-power-outage-fuel-crisis-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/11\/cuba-fourth-nationwide-power-outage-fuel-crisis-us-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Experiences Fourth Nationwide Power Outage This Year Amid Fuel Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba&#8217;s electricity company has announced a complete shutdown of the country\u2019s power grid due to an intensifying fuel crisis, resulting in a nationwide blackout. This marks the fourth widespread power outage in Cuba during the current calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, fuel shortages have caused power generation facilities to lose their capacity to operate, leading to widespread blackouts across various regions of the country. Officials from Cuba\u2019s electricity company stated that efforts to gradually restore electricity are ongoing, but the fuel crisis remains a serious challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The company also emphasized that U.S. sanctions have played a significant role in exacerbating fuel shortages and complicating the energy supply process. They noted that restrictions on financial transactions and fuel imports have placed additional pressure on the country&#8217;s energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has faced extensive U.S. economic sanctions for years. Havana\u2019s officials believe these sanctions have directly impacted multiple sectors of the economy, including energy, making it more difficult to access resources and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba faces a fourth nationwide blackout this year amid a severe fuel crisis worsened by U.S. sanctions, affecting power supply across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}