{"id":15185,"date":"2024-10-29T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:42:17","slug":"blackouts-arent-unusual-in-cuba-but-this-one-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15185","title":{"rendered":"Blackouts aren\u2019t unusual in Cuba, but this one is different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The blackout is the culmination of decades of disinvestment, an economic crisis, and global factors affecting the country\u2019s oil supply, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be a long-term solution to the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cuban government regularly imposes hours-long blackouts in different parts of the country to conserve the fuel necessary to run the electrical plants. But the current outage is different. It was sparked by a breakdown at one of the country\u2019s aging electrical stations and has affected every facet of life for ordinary people: They cannot cool or light their homes, food is spoiling in refrigerators, they cannot cook, and many can\u2019t access water to drink or wash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the situation has now reached a crisis point, it\u2019s a tragedy that has developed over time and emphasizes Cuba\u2019s fragile economy, development imperatives, and its tenuous place in world politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379206\/cuba-power-grid-collapse-castro-venezuela-oil-blackout-russia\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379206\/cuba-power-grid-collapse-castro-venezuela-oil-blackout-russia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The blackout is the culmination of decades of disinvestment, an economic crisis, and global factors affecting the country\u2019s oil supply, and there doesn\u2019t seem to be a long-term solution to the crisis.<br \/>\nThe Cuban government regularly imposes hours-long blackouts in different parts of the country to conserve the fuel necessary to run the electrical plants. But the current outage is different. It was sparked by a breakdown at one of the country\u2019s aging electrical stations and has affected every facet of life for ordinary people: They cannot cool or light their homes, food is spoiling in refrigerators, they cannot cook, and many can\u2019t access water to drink or wash.<\/p>\n<p>Though the situation has now reached a crisis point, it\u2019s a tragedy that has developed over time and emphasizes Cuba\u2019s fragile economy, development imperatives, and its tenuous place in world politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/379206\/cuba-power-grid-collapse-castro-venezuela-oil-blackout-russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1192,1189,1210,913,694,1887],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-blackout","tag-communism","tag-cuba","tag-electricity","tag-power","tag-power-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}