Havana
CNN
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Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging more than 10 million people into darkness.
“At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement.
Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added.
Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed a street and its buildings shrouded in total darkness, with light only emanating from passing cars.
It marks the latest in…
