The causes of the power blackout in Cuba

The collapse and re-establishment of the national electrical system

     The principal cause of the October 18-October 21 power outage in Cuba is the intensification of the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, initiated by the Trump administration as one front in an economic, ideological, and political war against leading anti-imperialist countries, and continued by the Biden administration.  The new front implements previously enacted U.S. legislation that targets companies and banks in third countries that have transactions with Cuba, and it threatens fines and other sanctions on companies and banks throughout the world, using its absurd inclusion of Cuba on a list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism.  The front is defended with the pretext that the Cuban government is authoritarian, a claim that is at least partially believed by the majority of the American people, because of widespread unawareness of Cuban reality.  The new front ruptured Cuban relations with many international commercial and financial partner…