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Cuba suffered its third island-wide blackout in four months on March 16, 2026, leaving all 10 million residents without power after the national electrical grid completely collapsed. The crisis is the culmination of a US-imposed oil blockade that has cut Cuba's fuel imports by 90% since January, compounding decades of infrastructure decay and triggering the island's worst humanitarian emergency since the Cold War.