Cuba declares complete fuel shortage amid US blockade and blackout crisis

Millions of Cubans face severe energy shortages with rotating blackouts at worst levels in decades, affecting basic services and quality of life.

An island nation has reached the hard bottom of a long-building collapse: Cuba's government confirmed this week that its fuel and diesel reserves are entirely gone, leaving the national grid in critical condition and millions of citizens enduring blackouts at their worst in decades. The United States, whose embargo has long constrained Cuba's access to energy markets, now offers $100 million in humanitarian aid — channeled deliberately through the Catholic Church and civil organizations, not the state. What unfolds next is less a logistical question than a political and moral one: whether a go

Cuba declares complete fuel shortage amid US blockade and blackout crisis

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