{"id":49136,"date":"2026-03-23T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-in-cuba-as-island-plunged-into-darkness\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:34:06","slug":"bbc-in-cuba-as-island-plunged-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-in-cuba-as-island-plunged-into-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC in Cuba as island plunged into darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">More than 10 million people in Cuba have had power cut to their homes and businesses after the country&#8217;s national electrical grid collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Caribbean island has been hit with several blackouts this month, as a result of a US fuel blockade that cuts off the foreign oil imports needed to keep power stations running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Communist-run country has an ageing electricity infrastructure and chronic fuel shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC&#8217;s Will Grant reports from the capital Havana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cj94jp3jmv8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10 million people in Cuba have had power cut to their homes and businesses after the country&#8217;s national electrical grid collapsed. The Caribbean island has been hit with several blackouts this month, as a result of a US fuel blockade that cuts off the foreign oil imports needed to keep power stations running. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49138,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions\/49138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}