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Cuba has been in Washington’s crosshairs for decades. The Iran war is raising the stakes
The Conversation, Vol.24 March 2026
2026
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Abstract
On March 16, Cuba’s national electricity grid collapsed for the third time in four months, plunging 10 million people into more than 29 hours of darkness. Hospitals struggled to keep generators running, water pumps shut down and refuse piled up on streets where collection trucks have sat empty for weeks.
The immediate cause is a fuel shortage building since January, when the United States cut off Cuba’s oil supply following the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
Details
- Title
- Cuba has been in Washington’s crosshairs for decades. The Iran war is raising the stakes
- Authors
- Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.24 March 2026
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.jkyesweqj
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991216247402621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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