Cuba's government blames weeks of worsening blackouts on deteriorating infrastructure, fuel shortages and rising demand.

Cuba’s power grid has ground to a halt for a second time in as many days, leaving 10 million on the island without power and the Caribbean island in a growing sense of crisis.

Cuba's worst economic crisis in decades has caused a shortage of fuel that spurred weeks of often hourslong blackouts. Two nationwide power cuts in less than a day left the Caribbean island in almost total darkness.