HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's electrical grid went offline Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, and as a massive blackout that started a day earlier swept across the Caribbean island.
Cuba's energy ministry announced that the grid had gone down hours after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant had ceased operations, at about 11 a.m. local time. Authorities said at the time it was only offline temporarily.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero had sought to assuage concerned citizens about the outage that began Thursday evening. Millions of Cubans were left without powe...
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