Cuba’s derelict and barely-functional power grid completely failed twice between Sunday and Monday, marking the fourth and fifth nationwide blackouts that have struck the island nation in less than a month.
Over the past six decades, the communist Castro regime’s mismanagement of the nation’s power grid and power plants has forced Cubans to live through recurring blackouts — making it one of the longest-standing consequences of communism in Cuba after late murderous dictator Fidel Castro violently took control of the country in 1959.
Cuba’s dysfunctional power generation largely relies on seven obsolete thermal power plants, some of which are over four decades old and have not been renovated or replaced...
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