Cuba Dispatch

Tonight the Cuban grid is forecast to black out 1,732 MW of load at the 20:30 peak, more than half of projected demand. The fuel shortage driving that collapse is no longer incidental to US policy. It is the product of a two-tier sanctions architecture that eased Venezuelan oil sales to most of the world on 18 March while keeping the Cuban state explicitly carved out, a choice Havana now frames as a deliberate energy siege.