{"id":85153,"date":"2026-08-03T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85153"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:24:42","slug":"cuba-plunges-into-darkness-as-electric-grid-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cuba-plunges-into-darkness-as-electric-grid-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Plunges Into Darkness As Electric Grid Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s electricity grid collapsed late on Sunday, the state-owned grid \u200boperator said, plunging the island of \u200cabout 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent.<\/p>\n<p>The outage follows three nationwide blackouts in \u200bJuly and comes as a US-imposed \u200boil blockade further strains the island\u2019s aging energy infrastructure.\u00a0The Union Electrica de Cuba gave \u200bno further details of the situation in \u200bits posts on X and Facebook.\u00a0 Pressure on the power system has mounted as Cuba struggles to secure \u200bfuel imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): Cuba\u2019s electricity grid collapsed late on Sunday, the state-owned grid \u200boperator said, plunging the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}