{"id":280977,"date":"2026-07-07T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=280977"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:54:45","slug":"cuba-begins-restoring-power-after-nationwide-grid-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/280977\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba begins restoring power after nationwide grid collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Cuba began to slowly restore power on Monday after the country&rsquo;s national electric &#8203;grid collapsed earlier in the day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/cubas-national-electric-grid-collapses-reason-unknown-2026-07-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>This was the latest blow to an island already suffering &zwnj;from severe energy, fuel and medicine shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Officials &#8203;have not yet said what caused the grid to collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has for months suffered from &#8203;hours-long and, more recently, days-long power outages linked in part to a decrepit &#8288;grid and a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has cut off the island&rsquo;s fuel supply.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba began to slowly restore power on Monday after the country&rsquo;s national electric &#8203;grid collapsed earlier in the day, Reuters writes. This was the latest blow to an island already suffering &zwnj;from severe energy, fuel and medicine shortages. Officials &#8203;have not yet said what caused the grid to collapse. Cuba has for months suffered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":280957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280978,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280977\/revisions\/280978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}