The U.S. has been restricting oil shipments to Cuba since January, plunging the country into blackouts lasting days at a time.

The U.S. has offered $100 million in aid to Cuba as authorities said the island nation's national energy grid suffered a major failure early Thursday that severed power to the island's eastern provinces.

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, May 14 (Reuters) - Cuba on Thursday said it would entertain a U.S. offer of $100 million in humanitarian aid but expressed skepticism over President Donald Trump's intentions at a time when a U.

Ratcliffe met with Raulito Rodriguez Castro, Minister of Interior Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of the Cuban intelligence service.

John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to visit the country.

Sissi Abascal Zamora, the youngest member of the Ladies in White movement, traveled to Miami thanks to a humanitarian visa from the US State Department

The intensified blackouts caused by the U.S. fuel blockade have periodically sparked protests in Cuba since early 2026.

Cuba's electrical grid suffered a partial collapse early on Thursday morning, the country's grid operator UNE said, snuffing out power across eastern Cuba

A Cuban official said the situation is “extremely tense” as blackouts sparked protests in Havana on Wednesday.

Cuba's electrical grid suffered a partial collapse early on Thursday morning, the country's grid operator UNE said, snuffing out power across eastern Cuba and testing the patience of Cubans already exhausted ‌from seemingly interminable blackouts amid a U.