It was already a fourth major power outage in the country for five months.
Cuban’s nationwide power outage continued on Saturday night Finnish time. The power outage started on Friday night a local time, and most of the country was still free of electricity on Saturday.
According to the authorities, some critical sites, such as hospitals, had succeeded in restoring electricity. In Havana, the capital of Cuba, the streets were dark, but in some generators and hospitals the lights were on.
It was already a fourth major power outage in the country in the last five months. Three of the breaks took place during the last months of last year. Two of them took several days.
The Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mine reported on Friday that the latest break was caused by a fault at the Diezmero area south of Havana in the Diezmero area.