(15 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Havana, Cuba – 14 March 2025
1. Aerial shot of city skyline ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Havana, Cuba – 15 March 2025
2. Various of traffic lights off and streets, people, city
3. Various of men playing dominoes on the street
4. Various of neighbors on the sidewalk, other people on street
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Celida Carillo, resident:
“We are all in bad shape because we have had no electricity since yesterday; we did not expect it, imagine that.”
6. Various of Frank Garcia tries to light a plant at the private market where he works
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Frank Garcia, resident:
“Of course, we are concerned about the situation. Independent of our work, we have a home and worry about food spoiling and our houses.”
8. People buying vegetables
9. Tourists walking
10. People, street
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Kevin Domínguez, resident:
“This has happened several times already. Last time, we had food that spoiled and so on. This has no solution.”
12. Various of people, police, traffic
STORYLINE:
Millions of people in Cuba remained without power Saturday after a failure of the nation’s electric grid left the island in the dark the previous night.
The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.
Internet and telephone service were intermittent about 18 hours after power went out around 8 pm local time Friday.
Lázaro Guerra, director of electricity at the ministry, said on national television that power was already being generated to support vital services such as hospitals.
A statement from the Cuban Electricity Union released Saturday said the strategy was to create “microsystems” that will connect to each other to gradually restore electricity across the country.
In Havana, people shop for food on Saturdays. Businesses were open, although some were operating using batteries or small home generators.
Gas stations were also open, but the tunnel that runs under Havana Bay and connects the city to the outskirts was dark.
Cuba suffered similar blackouts in October, November, and December.
The latest was the first of 2025, but in mid-February authorities suspended classes and work activities for two days due to a shortage of electricity generation that exceeded 50% in the country.
Experts have said the electricity disruptions are a result of fuel shortages at power plants and aging infrastructure. Most plants have been in operation for more than 30 years.
AP Video by Ariel Fernandez
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