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Cuba sees island-wide blackout after power plant failure (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to c/world@quokk.au

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In a statement on X, the ministry said “the failure” of the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant caused “the total disconnection of the National Electrical System” from 11 a.m. ET on Friday.

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[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How can Cuba have an official X account if the US doesn’t let companies work with Cuba?

[–] JawesomeStreetStorks 11 points 1 year ago

Twitter, it's called Twitter.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 7 points 1 year ago

I thought these were lifted during the Cuban thaw, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30524560

Also, the official account of Cuba likely isn't paying any money to maintain their account, so additionally may be some loophole like "so it doesn't count as a commercial transaction".

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since when was ITAR a problem for Musk? I'm sure he's violating ITAR constantly, esp. with the Russians and Starlink. Twitter for Cuba is peanuts by comparison

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's really great that he's standing up for the principle of free speech even when it's on behalf of a communist government that hates him and everything he stands for.