Cuba hit by second nationwide blackout amid worsening energy crisis [Video]

Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish it.”Previously Cuban officials said small pockets of power had been restored across the island although there were no immediate numbers provided of how many people had their service reconnected.Some Cubans complained on social media that their power briefly returned before flickering out.The blackouts threatened to plunge the communist-run nation into a deeper crisis, as without power people would also not have running water and refrigerated food would quickly begin to spoil.Millions of people have been left without power over the last several days as the aging Cuban electrical grid repeatedly collapsed.Saturday’s blackout follows an island-wide shutdown of Cuba’s electrical grid on Friday …