Lights Out For Cuba – IOTW Report

Lights Out For Cuba

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The electricity went out Friday in Cuba, affecting the entire island’s population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry.

On Friday evening, authorities announced power had been restored to about 20,000 residents of the capital, Havana, which has a population of 2 million.

Power outages have been chronic in Cuba for years and have worsened in recent months. But the situation was so critical in the past three days that the government took measures to keep the lights on. More

12 Comments on Lights Out For Cuba

  1. sounds like typical demrat energy policy in the People’s Paradise of Cuba

    … coming to a USA near you! ‘specially if Kammie Kumquat’s minions are up for the Steal

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  2. I read somewhere that the Cubans use more draft animals in sugar production today than they used in the 1950s. Tractors are fading out due to no spare parts, not to mention no new tractors to any extent either. The combination agricultural production and power production collapses -for similar reason- suggest a holistic problem with economic organization. What could it possibly be?

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  3. It’s not simply bad central economic planning. It’s the sheer malevolent stupidity of murdering, imprisoning, or exiling every last competent and productive professional capable of keeping the lights on and performing all other activities necessary to keep even a low-level technological society from devolving into the pit of ordure that Cuba is fast becoming.

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