Il Tempo: Cuba tratta con Trump e intanto resta al buio: blackout totale sull'isola per il blocco petrolifero

L'intera isola di Cuba è rimasta senza corrente, ha annunciato la compagnia elettrica statale. Si tratta dell'ennesimo blackout causato dal blocco petrolifero imposto dagli Stati Uniti per fare pressione sul governo comunista dell'isola. Le interruzioni di corrente sono state causate da un "blocco completo della rete elettrica nazionale", ha dichiarato l'Union Nacional Electrica de Cuba (Une) in un comunicato, aggiungendo che sono iniziati i lavori per ripristinare l'erogazione di energia elettrica.

Nel frattempo è pure emerso che ai cubani che vivono all'estero, anche alle comunità degli esiliati negli Stati Uniti, sarà permesso di investire nel settore privato e possedere società nell'isola. Lo ha dichiarato il vice premier cubano Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga in un'intervista a Nbcnews, in cui spiega che "Cuba è aperta ad avere relazioni commerciali fluide con le società americane, anche con cubani che risiedono negli Usa e con i loro discendenti". Fraga, che è anche ministro per gli investimenti e il commercio estero, ha anticipato nell'intervista con l'emittente americana la notizia prima dell'annuncio ufficiale di oggi da parte dell'Avana. Nell'intervista il vice premier ha illustrato il suo impegno per portare vita all'economia in estrema crisi dell'isola attraverso una serie di riforme tese a creare quello che definisce "un ambiente dinamico per gli affari", con l'obiettivo di rilanciare diversi settori, tra i quali quello turistico e il minerario, e avviare l'ammodernamento dell'antiquata rete elettrica. Per Fraga lo sforzo va "oltre la sfera commerciale, si applica anche agli investimenti, non solo di piccola portata ma anche di portata maggiore, in particolare per gli investimenti".

In questo quadro "l'embargo degli Stati Uniti, la politica di ostilità nei confronti di Cuba, è indubbiamente un elemento che influisce su queste trasformazioni", aggiunge il ministro, sottolineando come l'embargo "ci priva dell'accesso alle finanze, alla tecnologia, al mercato e, negli anni recenti, è stato specificatamente puntato a privare il nostro Paese dell'accesso al carburante". La scorsa settimana il governo cubano per la prima volta ha confermato di aver avviato colloqui con l'amministrazione Trump.

Cuba negotiated with Trump and meanwhile remained in the dark: total blackout on the island due to the oil blockade.

The entire island of Cuba has been without power, the state-owned electricity company announced. This is the latest blackout caused by the oil blockade imposed by the United States to pressure the island’s communist government. The power outages were caused by a “complete shutdown of the national electrical grid,” the Union Nacional Electrica de Cuba (Une) stated in a press release, adding that work had begun to restore electricity service.

Meanwhile, it has also emerged that Cubans living abroad, including communities of exiles in the United States, will be allowed to invest in the private sector and own companies on the island. Vice Premier of Cuba Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga stated this in an interview with NBCnews, explaining that “Cuba is open to having fluid business relationships with American companies, even with Cubans residing in the US and with their descendants.” Fraga, who is also the Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, preempted the official announcement from Havana in the interview with the American broadcaster. In the interview, the Vice Premier outlined his commitment to reviving the island’s severely crisis-stricken economy through a series of reforms aimed at creating what he defines as “a dynamic business environment,” with the goal of relaunching several sectors, including tourism and mining, and initiating the modernization of the antiquated electrical grid. For Fraga, the effort “goes beyond the commercial sphere, it also applies to investments, not just small-scale but also larger ones, particularly for investments.”

Within this context, “the United States embargo, the policy of hostility towards Cuba, undoubtedly is an element that influences these transformations,” the Minister added, emphasizing how the embargo “deprives us of access to finance, technology, the market, and, in recent years, has specifically targeted depriving our country of access to fuel.” Last week, the Cuban government confirmed for the first time that it had begun talks with the Trump administration.

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https://www.iltempo.it/esteri/2026/03/16/news/cuba-blackout-totale-rete-elettrica-embargo-usa-petrolio-energia-investimenti-46838690/

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10 #Cubans from #Florida in a #speedboat #attacked #Cuban #military, this article says. One has confessed. Some were wanted by Cuban authorities. Allegedly they were wanting to take over the country.

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"To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

Cubans had long benefited from legal privileges unavailable to immigrants from other countries. President Trump has changed that.

Heidy Sánchez took her 17-month-old daughter to a routine check-in last April with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Tampa, Fla. During the appointment, federal authorities told her that she was being detained and that her husband should pick up their daughter, who was still breastfeeding.

Two days later, Ms. Sánchez, 44, who worked as a home health aide, was deported.

Ms. Sánchez’s story quickly spread across social media, in part because she is Cuban, a group that had long been treated differently than other immigrants, even when they entered the country illegally.

That has changed under President Trump.

He has repatriated more than 1,600 Cubans in 2025, according to the Cuban government. That is about double the number of Cubans who were repatriated in 2024. And in the years that Mr. Trump has been president, he has sent more Cubans back than his three predecessors.

Those numbers are greater for Cubans who were deported by land into Mexico. Some of them had been in the United States for decades and built families and businesses, but were removed because of an old criminal conviction — say, from Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboys days in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Nowhere has the shock of treating Cubans like other migrants been felt more than in Florida, which was shaped in modern times by exiles of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Families, businesses and communities that once felt removed from or immune to immigration enforcement now must face it head-on. Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity, turning older immigrants against newer ones.
Under Mr. Trump, many other countries saw similar increases in repatriation. The difference is that Cubans had not previously been targeted as aggressively for removal. Regular deportation flights to Cuba began in January 2017, under President Barack Obama, paused during the coronavirus pandemic and restarted in 2023.

Many Cubans have also been detained for weeks or months in a facility in the Florida Everglades known as 'Alligator Alcatraz.' At another nearby detention facility, Cuban detainees protested last June by writing 'SOS Cuba' on their shirts and spelling out 'SOS' with their bodies in the recreation yard."

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