Cuba's electrical grid goes dark for the 2nd time in a week
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Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed on Friday in the second nationwide outage this week and the fourth this year as a U.S.-imposed oil blockade has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.
Cuba Suffers Second Nationwide Blackout in a Week
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- An islandwide blackout strikes Cuba for the second time this week as its grid crumbles ABC News —