Millions left without power after major blackout hits Cuba's western region

A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba. Millions of people in Havana and beyond were without power on Wednesday in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid. The government’s Electric Union confirmed the outage on social platform X, saying it affected people from the eastern town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey. The agency said crews were working to restore power. It is the second such outage to affect Cuba’s western region in the past three months.