Will Grant

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130 appearances 10 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Jun

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Global News Podcast · Donald Trump says there are points of agreement with Iran · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

I think it's really a question for most Cubans, a sense of, well, for now, I mean, until the next one.

They're simply aware that while the grid might have been brought back online

for the time being, that it won't be long before it collapses again, probably.

That has been the case before the US imposed fuel blockade on the island, but certainly since US elite troops removed Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela, Venezuela being Cuba's closest energy ally in recent years.

has made the situation in Cuba almost unbearable for ordinary people.

The rolling blackouts were already very, very bad.

This nation was already going through its biggest energy crisis since the end of the Cold War.

And since Nicolas Maduro was removed from power in Venezuela, Washington has imposed an almost total oil blockade on the island.

While the grid might be back up and running again for now, I think most Cubans are simply expecting it to go down again very soon.

In all different ways that you could imagine.

I mean, on the very, very basic ways, obviously with having no power, that means when it comes back on, whether or not that's two in the morning, three in the morning, four in the morning, people have to immediately get up and start to cook.

Because if they don't cook when they have power, if they have electric hobs or electric stoves, then they may not get another chance again that day because power can come back for maybe three, maybe five hours and then not be on again for another 20.

So it is very, very exhausting for people to be waking at all hours, trying to do the very basic things of life, charge their phones, be back in communication with their family members abroad.

And of course, for children, it can mean schools being shuttered or it's very, very difficult to do schoolwork from home with no power.

Workplaces are closed.

You can go on and on.

There's no fuel with which to fill car tanks.

There's no fuel with which to run generators.

Everything is being rationed to the most extreme degree.

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