All of Cuba was plunged into darkness Friday after the island’s main power plant suddenly shut down.
The country’s Antonio Guiteras power plant witnessed an unexpected outage, causing the National Electricity System to be “completely disconnected at 11 a.m.,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) posted on X. “The Unión Eléctrica is working on its restoration.”
The Antonio Guiteras power plant, located in the province of Matanzas, is the island nation’s primary thermoelectric plant, according to the Cuba-focused digital news outlet CiberCuba.
No street lights appeared to be working on the Cuban capital of Havana’s roads, only a few traffic officers were on duty and only a few generators could be heard as many could not afford them, CNN reported.
About four hours later, MINEM said in part that it was…
