Cuba blames U.S. measures for power grid crisis

HAVANA, June 12– The Cuban government said Thursday that the country’s strained power grid is the result of U.S. measures that have tightened the economic, commercial and financial embargo Washington has maintained against the island for more than six decades.

“Those in the U.S. government who claim that the precarious state of Cuba’s power system is the fault of our government are lying to hide the crime they are committing against the Cuban people,” Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez wrote on X.

Rodriguez said Cuba’s power system was not a victim of neglect but of “a brutal war,” adding that those carrying it out “know perfectly well the harm it causes the population” and hide behind “lies and propaganda.”