Cuba's Power Grid Collapses Again After Second Hurricane. And Then an Earthquake Hit (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/11/0243251/cubas-power-grid-collapses-again-after-second-hurricane-and-then-an-earthquake-hit
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/americas/earthquake-cuba-intl-latam/index.html
> Videos of the aftermath showed power infrastructure turned into a mangled mess and power poles down on streets. Hundreds of technicians were mobilized Thursday to reestablish power connections, according to state media... Operations at two electrical plants were partially restored and parts of eastern and central Cuba had electricity back up by Thursday afternoon, state media reported... The country's power grid [2]has collapsed multiple times , including when Hurricane Oscar hit in October and killed at least 7 people.
In the capital of Havana, where 2 million people live, power had been restored to less than 20% of the city by late Friday afternoon, . "Authorities had not yet given an estimate for when power would be fully restored..."
Then [3]tonight, CNN reported :
> A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Cuba on Sunday, causing material damage in several regions as the island continues to recover from widespread blackouts and the impact of two hurricanes over the past few weeks. The earthquake was reported about 39 km (24 miles) south of Bartolomé Masó before noon local time, about an hour after a 5.9 magnitude quake rocked the area, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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> "There have been landslides, damage to homes and power lines," Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said, adding that authorities are evaluating the situation to start recovery efforts.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/06/weather/hurricane-rafael-path-forecast-climate/index.html
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/20/americas/cuba-blackout-third-day-failed-restore-intl/index.html
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/americas/earthquake-cuba-intl-latam/index.html
Coming soon- (Score:3)
"Cuba's power grid collapses again after third earthquake, eighth hurricane, plague of locust, and Pitbull concert. And then-"
They're doing it wrong. (Score:3)
They need to put the people who keep the '57 Chevys running in charge of the power grid.
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Or Miami.
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Cuba can pay back the billions of US assets that were illegally seized during the revolution and I'll bet that will get talks moving, quick.
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Because there are finite resources and helping enemy States that would happily kill you and take everything you have is not a good policy.
Millions have died in NK of starvation and State executions. China? Africa? Iran? Those places don't want help and wouldn't use it correctly even if they had every resource in the World.
Ukraine wants help and uses it to combat an enemy State that wants to subjugate the entire World at one man's whim. Palestine is a country ruled by literal terrorists.
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Ukraine isn't serious about her won defense or they would have had a general draft already.
Trying to half ass it isn't working and the west could send infinite weapons system but it won't help if there aren't enough Ukrainians to use it.
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Ronald Reagan would get called a woketard today. That’s how much the party moved.
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Fascinating. Based on which of his policies?
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> Fascinating. Based on which of his policies?
How about getting of open carry because black people were exercising second amendment rights? [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Reagan defended the law, saying that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons"
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," Ronald Reagan said in 1984. [2]https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04... [npr.org]
But in 1978, Reagan took an enormous political risk by co
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
[2] https://www.npr.org/2010/07/04/128303672/a-reagan-legacy-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants
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Being opposed to open carry doesn't make you woke.
Reagan later said amnesty was his greatest political mistake.
Modern conservatives don't give a shit about homosexuality. You're living in the time of social conservative power from the 80s. Please join us in 2024.
Modern teachers are in fact doing exactly that. If you had kids in school today, which I do, you'd know that. In fact they're very open about it, it's not a secret. They're proud of it. On this planet at least.
So, what exactly was Reagan woke
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Nothing is stopping "the rest of the world" from leading by example and sending aid to Cuba, right now.
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Their Russian, Chinese, Venezuelan, Iranian and North Korean buddies are certainly rushing to the aid of their comrades-in-arms in their time of need.
Oh, they’re not helping? What a surprise.
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Russia, Mexico, and Slovakia, and other countries are helping. Maybe you should diversify your news sources?
[1]https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
[2]https://al24news.com/en/mexico... [al24news.com]
[3]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news... [msn.com]
[4]https://en.cibercuba.com/notic... [cibercuba.com]
Hell, 3% of what we give Israel every year would get Cuba fixed up in no time. [5]https://www.reuters.com/world/... [reuters.com]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/russia-aid-hurricane-hit-cuba-with-diesel-fuel-minister-says-2024-11-08/
[2] https://al24news.com/en/mexico-strengthens-energy-aid-to-cuba-amid-crisis/
[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/slovakia-sends-aid-to-cuba-but-will-it-really-help/ar-AA1sV6tY
[4] https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2024-10-21-u1-e199370-s27061-nid290523-bruno-rodriguez-negocia-ayuda-internacional-afrontar
[5] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-has-secured-87-billion-us-aid-package-2024-09-26/
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Great, so with so much global assistance there is no need for the US to aid a country whose leadership hates us.
I'm glad that got settled out so quickly and Cuba is back on her feet again.
Nothing except the most powerful country (Score:2)
On planet Earth that is. Any nation that tried to normalize relations with Cuba would see an instant backlash from America. Russia by the way doesn't have normalized relations with Cuba they are using Cuba to interfere with our politics
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The main problem is basically getting there - being the US bars flights to/form Cuba over its airspace, and bars flights to/from Cuba from US soil as well. This means most flights either have to start in South America or Canada.
Of course, aid is a very touchy subject - Cuba has very little that any country wants other than maybe cigars, so any aid has to be humanitarian based. And it's also up to the country itself to declare they want it - because you cannot just send food there - it will get seized.
So the
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Why isn't your country sending them aid?
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> Why doesn't anyone send them aid?
Perhaps Cuba's routine joint exercises with the Russian military?
Or support of Maduro's destruction of democracy in Venezuela?
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Obama started working with Cuba. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Trump of course undid it. [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... [nytimes.com]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_thaw
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/cuba-trump-engagement-restrictions.html
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Obama made very few mistakes, but that was a geopolitical risk he took that didn’t pay off. They just don’t want to change. Not yet. There’s not much point engaging with Cuba until they decide they want more out of existence than grinding-dirt-poor-dictatorship. I’m not in favor of forcibly spreading democracy. You do you, man. But I’m not obligated to support your parasitic lifestyle or to sit by while you to spread it.
A country that just elected a president (Score:2)
Who has repeatedly threatened to use the military against his political opponents probably shouldn't throw stones in their glass house.
Realistically the reason we don't normalize relations with Cuba is because Florida has been a swing state for a while and is now a red state and that's largely because of a large population of Cuban immigrants that the Republican party caters to by maintaining sanctions against the country.
It doesn't make sense to keep an antagonistic position with Cuba given that it