Millions left without electricity in Cuba suffers two nationwide blackouts
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Cuba has been plunged into a nationwide blackout for the second time just hours after officials said power was restored. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News...)
10 million residents are left without electricity forcing schools and businesses to shut down.
Officials from the communist nation have blamed ageing infrastructure, damage from recent hurricanes and US economic sanctions for the widespread power cuts.
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Wow, some unbelievably stupid comments on here. No electricity means no fuel pumps, no buses, no refrigeration, no running water. Try to imagine your own life without electricity suddenly. Now add to that no stock-up of food or water because you’ve been struggling to feed your family day to day as it is.
It's called socialism if you want to try it with Labour....
Well now, what a pity but that is really the upside to communism, communism is as tyrannical as it gets, you do know Kamala is a Marxist & tampon Tim is a Communist, vote for them & the sooner their new green deal kicks in, the US becomes a superior example of a communistic 3rd world super power with no bullets.
Same will happen here people. get ready. Be prepared.
AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN, It's #DEFINITELY coming 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
😂Not if we've green energy.
In Europe they are trying to sell the Cuban system as "progressive" left 😂😂😂
We have power cuts here all the time here in Lincolnshire and have had for years.
@@Joey-ct8bmIt’s about as green as a pile of 💩. 😂
The inevitable consequence of socialism….
Wrong,- it's the consequence of American hegemony
@@fspg3207
Wrong. It's the consequence of socialism and doing business with Russia. Notice how every other country that did business with Russia end up being among the worst off?
Nothing to do with word, wake up already. Who creates control, creates rules.
What they have in Cuba is not socialism, but a rigid paranoia Stalinist dictatorship.
Coming to the UK soon......
I heard that storm Ashley is about to hit UK. When it's over, the areas that storm hit will lose electricity too. So, you all need to be prepared.
Is it, Why?
Coming to Londonistan you mean?
@@amoretpax199 trying not to blame everything on muslims (impossible)
ya..get prepared with at least a petrol generator at home now that UK has shut down the last coal power station....
My wife and I just returned to Toronto, Canada from vacation in Santa Maria Cuba last week. Wow that was close. The lack of infrastructure down there is frightening. No doubt the hotel resort we stayed at is plunged into darkness. Its like 1905 rural Mississippi down there. No public phones, there is nowhere to get juice, food, medicine, no bank machines, nowhere at all. Just nondescript hotels that only sell rum in US dollars and water if its available, which I am sure by now its all gone. I only hope that our fellow Canadian travelers we left behind are safe? but in that heat and humidity? I love Cuba but after my fifth trip, and first since 2018. I could see how things had gone down hill. Personally, I am never going back, you could just feel how vulnerable you were
Its the U.S. fault 😡
@@24299😂
@@24299no. Is called SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP
@@24299Yeah, like everything else!😂🤣
@@24299maybe stop being commies?
Outcome of communism always and everywhere.
Indeed. It’s a failed model, has been for a long time. Time to reform.
On the bright side they are hitting all the targets ECO warriors dream about🙄
Our island will be like this soon too if things don’t change.
What? like being sanctioned by the yanks?
@@yaxl It can happen if you're not following the rules. Dont mess with yanks
@@andyk9113 Isn't the fear more that we get sanctioned by the yanks/AVBC'd if we *do* change?
@@yaxl lol they don't produce anything for anybody to able to trade something with. cubas biggest trading partners are the west it's the internal embargo communism that makes it hard for regular cubans
@@andyk9113 Or don't trust china, russia, and venezuela to keep giving you free stuff and says communism works 😂
Cuba should pay the bills. No money, no oil.
Blame Fidel
So sad just because they wanted to join with BRICS.
The same BRICS with South Africa having millions of people left in the dark due to loadshedding?
Should stick to covering news from UK, the pensioners in UK will have to black out their heating and electricity next 6 months.
What did Communists use to light their squats before candles?
Electricity! 😅
everyone equally poor also every equally no power except for the government 🤣
How many Cubans needed to change a light bulb? None and it's down to them!?!
@@TomTomicMic Nah, it's down to the yanks.
@@terrystevens5261 nah it's communism from the cuban government ask any cuban living in america
@@terrystevens5261the yanks didn’t make them commies
Even Cubans who are living in the country seem to be fine with it, why you all (who are living outside Cuba) are acting like Cubans are about to die without electricity? Just wondering, btw.
@@雪花冰玉-xuehuabingyu exactly, even various countries in Africa, sometimes have problems with their electricity, they have so many generators, to try help when the electrics go off, but yet, there’s a lot of money in Nigeria. Notice the media, are not mentioning that…
thats some cope. Thousands of cubans risk their lives to get to the USA, theres no one going in the other direction,
Cuba shows us how "equality" works, everyone is equally poor
Because they are about to die. How are they going to eat?
Russian bot moment
Coming to the UK this winter now we are being controlled by the mental asylum
Only in Clacton.
Things are great Commie Cuba 😊
The same thing is going to happen right here in the UK! Just give it a bit of time! It... Is inexorable! End.
Soon to be UK net zero blackout
MAYDAY!!!! MAYDAY!!!!! MAYDAY!!!!! Calling Karl Marx!!!!! Cuba needs you NOW to restore their utilities!!!!!
Let the Russians help Cuba now!
Was anyone helping them before? You live in illusion
@@evgeniam685 I said it sarcastically!
@@brianbrino4310 I know. But what do you mean by that sarcasm? Like as if someone was helping them before? Or using them?
Expect same in UK.
0:45 I kinda remember we went to that restaurant during our trip to Cuba back in 2010!
Don’t worry net zero will bring us down to their level 😂
Spot on my friend.
Socialism, some people love it.
Why is there a long running embargo?
Because commies want stuff free without paying for it basically!?!
Because of the U.S. paranoia surrounding communism.
@@terrystevens5261not paranoia just common sense
@@sutats because back in the day, Americans private owned companies started to own various things in Cuba. tried to take over Cuba, in Many different ways, they were basically exploiting the country, and at the time, had a bad Cuban president, who was in with the American government. Then Fidel came, and so did the revolution, he nationalised a lot of things to bring them back to Cuba, America didn’t like it, and put an embargo on them for 60 years. Then the cia tried to Assassinate Fidel so many times, but it never worked. God was in his side. He was a great man, who cared about people, and wasn’t afraid of America..
@@terrystevens5261 Kamala is almost borderline communist
That is sad but nothing compared to what's happening in Zambia
What's happening in Zambia?
Another COMMUNIST PARADISE??
These are people just like you and me. Why shouldn't we help them? It's not their fault the US is bumping heads with their government. They already have a dreadful time having to eke out a miserable existence . I bet Guantanamo has all the power it needs.
Helping people requires a competent government, Cuba does not have a competent government otherwise it wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, any money you donate would help the incompetent government get richer, but not its poor long suffering populace!?!
@@TomTomicMic Yeah, I'm not talking about private donations but maybe lifting the embargo long enough for them to get some power. Otherwise Russia will at some point bail them out and we will be back to square one .
@@TomTomicMic It wouldn't be in the mess if the US hadn't slapped an embargo on them either. Ditto Venezuela. This is why the UK sucks up to the US all the time. They are our masters.
The embargo is not really why Cuba is in the mess it is in. Alot of countries thrive under sanctions.
Their gov is failing them.
@@johnmiller3494Could you name the countries that are thriving because of sanctions?
A true socialist paradise!🤣🤣 All this nonsense, this suffering, this absurd dictatorship, and then return to capitalism and see that it is much better! 🤣
Sad
Ta da - welcome to socialism!
Fuerza hermanos Cubanos
Derroquen a la dictadura comunista YAAA..!!
Same think. EN. ECUADOR.
1:33 she looks too happy.
Resilience and resistance are patrimony. 🇨🇺
& he still had his beer
I go here in 3 weeks on a package tour. I booked in February now it's T-minus three weeks. Can't help but feel I've fucked up big time....
And now they have Hurricane Oscar coming visiting the east of the island.
😢
Shame, shame,shame, you just said in your comment that the hotels are still being provided electricity by generators … are you kidding me ? Cubans are suffering and tourists are dancing in Cuban resorts 😮😢we should all not go to Cuba , unless you have wife/ husband, family and like that not help the Cuban regime !!😮⛽️🙉🙊🙈🇨🇺❤️‼️
I notice channel 4, you’re not mentioning various other countries that have black outs with electricity. Even Nigeria has problems with their electric, and they have OIL , you just decided you want to discredit Cuba…
Cuba is currently a basket case, yes other countries are run badly as well but obviously not as much as Cuba, when it could be fairly well off with a change of leadership to a Capitalist economy!?!
cuba should be discredited, do you know what Che Guevara got up to
@@TomTomicMicWhat capitalist economy?...when the banks and corporations mess up, they'll get a bailout with taxpayers money the biggest pot.
@@TomTomicMic Go on tell me, Your American ?
I didn’t regularly watch CH4 so don’t know if they have mentioned that Ecuador has also had power outages due to hydropower not having enough water to power the turbines
oil is in short supply? what fantasy world are they living in?
It is because even Venezuela will not trade to the same levels with them
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The only countries that voted against lifting the trade blocade were Israel and America. Everyone else recognised it as the excessively cruel punishment that it was.
@@robertbones326 It's not like the US has political leverage in the region is it? Obviously even if the trade blockade was lifted without the US it would not improve Cuba's situation, if Cuba wants to move forward it has to normalise diplomatic ties and fundamentally change, otherwise just carry on regardless and see where it gets them!?!
Cuba is with a capital 'C' BTW C4!
I think it was a placeholder for the actual title which they forgot to upload with the video.
Talk with Venezuela
I thought they were allies of Russia.
When you sided with the Soviet Union... What could go wrong.... U.S never really forgave Cuba for that whole "Cuban Missile Crisis "....thing..
That was B.S, Propaganda on Cuba. Fidel was an amazing president.
Cuba was basically a brothel colony for the us navy before the people overthrew the puppet leader and were sanctioned as a result of the USA being bitter
@@DeeDee-2 Yes Cuba has advanced so much, only trouble is it's backwards, like 50 years, why have they not got solar panels!?!
@@DeeDee-2 he executed gays, his head executioner Che Guevara was a racist who took extra pleasure over executing blacks. The revolution they took to Ethiopia cost the lives of millions, and Che described his fellow black communists as "smelly, insolent, unable to follow orders and come the revolution he will do nothing for them
@@CarterSimon777
Only to become even more so when the USSR cut off the aid and Castro legalized prostitution and tourism to make up for that loss during "the Special Period."
Ask to Harris, she will invite all Cubans to America for sure if she becomes president of U.S.
TIME TO OVERTURN OIL INTO WIND & SOLAR ENERGY : MORE JOBS AND INDEPENDENCE !!
This has been Gaza for the past year
good
@@andrewbclinton not really, suffering of innocent civilians it's not good for anyone
@@emdadyy they started it with the biggest murder of Jews since the holocaust. The raped body of a German girl taken from a music festival was paraded around Gaza where hundreds of Gazans came out in wild celebration and spat on the body, innocent civilians??? btw the vid is available to see
@@emdadyysuffering of terror supporters
America under Harris and Waltz 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
Love you CUBA - Viva la Cuba
A glaring example of US imperial persecution of poor countries.
lol, that old cope, communism is supposed to work without capitalism
i would be ashamed to have red white and blue in my viens UK and US are atrocious genocidal kill machines profitting off murder on a scale not seen since WW2
@@andrewbclintonit does Cuba has embargo’s and sanctions put on them by the USA, that makes it hard for them to access supplies n get things done we actively try to make their live worse so we could point to them n say bad guy
@@Kodiaksmokinblunts Cuba has embargo's and sanctions on the USA and the rest of the west, my music is banned in Cuba. Are you saying communism only works when supported by capitalist countries like the USA, communism is supposed to reject capitalism. So why cant Cuba get any supplies it needs from China, or from the USSR back in the day, half the planet was communist at one point, all the mass starvation events were happening in these communist countries,,do you not think the problem might be communism The closest the world has ever got to nuclear war was the Cuban missile crisis, Che Guevara said that if he was in charge of "the button" he would have pressed it "in a heartbeat". Why would you think it was Americas responsibility to supply a regime that tried to annihilate them with nukes
@@Kodiaksmokinbluntswell said
Cuba, you actually live next door to the USA, where millions of people illegally eneter every year because their living standards and economy are so good. You have blackouts. Look in the mirror.
yep, thousands of Cubans risk their lives to get to the USA, theres no one going in the other direction, wonder why, Cuba was supposed to be the shining star in the communist world
@@truefalse207 and the Americans who try and enter Cuba for their healthcare. Because they have to pay for everything in the US. Healthcare is free in Cuba.
@@DeeDee-2
LOL. Hardly any Americans are risking death to get Cuban healthcare. They go to Mexico. Healthcare may be free, but unreliable as F.
Soon be here in U.K.
ASK RUSSIA M CHINA, N KOREA FOR HELP😂 THAT IS SOCIALISM/GET RID OF THE DICTATORS THERE: CASTRO FAMILY , DIAZ 😅😂CANEL
What? 🥴🥴🥴
@@CarterSimon777
She is speaking to alignment of the 'International Proletariat' countries; ie, Socialist Brotherhood.
Same thing as in the case of the Gazans: NO Arab countries are willing to take in their fellow Gazan Arabs, NO ONE! Cuba is in the same boat: they cause too much trouble, and so, NONE of their financially strapped Marxist/Maoist brethren want to help.
No one talks about helping Cubans when hurricane is coming, everyone only talks about US citizens. So unfair
I see Russia is helping Cuba. HA HA HA
Shut up!!!!!! Cuba problem is because communist stupid
System
So is the United States the only country in the continent? And why does all humanity think its the United States will to come to all's rescue? smdh
@@andyk9113 or don't trust ch1n, russ or venezue to give you free stuff and says communism working
@@amaliacoria3063 Umm, because US always gets into affairs of other countries? I don't know, I just guessed. 🤔🤔🤔
Socialism and authoritarianism works wonders doesn't it lolol
Thank you Cuba for your kindness, You have helped so many countries around the world. thank you for all that you have done. Viva la Cuba.
Yeah, the Rape Victims in Angola, who received 'Cuban help' as you call it, might well have a completely DIFFERENT story to tell than you!
@@jrbailey3208 absolutely B.S When Angola was trying to gain back their independence, after Portugal colonised it, it became a war, and without Cuba’s help, they wouldn’t have got their land back, Cuban sent there about 40,000 Cuban solders…and let’s not forget the ANC of South Africa, the world didn’t want to help apartheid, but Fidel did. ruclips.net/video/YBBbRdCuFk8/видео.htmlsi=MxRq1iW7gPZxQwV0
@@DeeDee-2
Your general understanding of what the Cubans did in Angola is utterly appalling. The rapes, murders, plundering, looting, and torture, in which they engaged has been well documented.
Further damage continued under the dictatorship which the Cubans helped keep in place, causing thousands more deaths via the utterly reprehensible totalitarian actions (NO legal 'due process', NO freedom of speech, NO freedom of movement, etc.) against the innocent citizenry of Angola.
But hey, you go right on ahead with your 'feel good' Marxism/Socialism mantras....you're far enough removed from the REALITIES in Cuba, or Socialist/Marxist African nations (including South Africa under the ANC), that you can maintain your support for dictatorship and mass murder, all the while keeping your hands 'clean'.
the famine in Ethiopia ?
@@andrewbclinton
You almost had it correctly.
Historically and empirically speaking, it was the 'man made' (Mengistu) famine in Ethiopia.
Viva Batista! Viva Lucky Luciano!
God bless them
Uk next
You got Shell from my country the Netherlands now, so you will be fine.
why is america at the forefront pf every humanitarian disaster in the world? souless isnt the word.
Just normal in 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 🇿🇦 😂
Don’t lie, South Africa has not had electricity problems for the past 6 months.
thats a crazy way to live. Who on earth would want to travel there for vacation. Its the worst place on earth 😂😂😂😂😂
Cubans are wonderful people, it's a wonderful island, bean there.
It's what's set for us all if Net Zero gets its way
People buy vacation packages, all the activities are within a certain distance and they don’t leave that area.
@@terrancekayton007 when I went to Cuba, I bought a package that took me to 4 different hotels, in Havana, Santa Clara, Trinidad and another place.,wonderful country, wonderful people.
@@DeeDee-2 their leaders arent so wonderful
Not single hijab in sight.
This could be any Dems town.tds is everywhere,folks who are you?
YES YES YES. My new Alienware Laptop is powerful. Tomorrow, I will remotely flush the toilets in the Vatican...
Brace yourselves, this and more is about to come to the entire world, submit to God and repent , jesus is coming soon to set the captives free , just make sure you create the spiritual inviroment to make this freedom work dor you
When you punish a country only the poor suffer!
You as in the Cuban government with external factors as cover for mismanagement and repression.
And so what? Humans can survive without electricity. Thanks for this wonderful piece of news.
They are already on 12$ a month average salary and can't buy essentials let alone refrigerate the RATIONS that they get from the state. No they are not okay. They are totally dependent on a broken system of Communism. Your ignorance is ridiculous.
Think about this. How can a factory operate without electricity? And If that happen, what will happen to workers in factory that will eventually get fired because factory closed due to electricity outage and they have no money to feed their family and their children are starving to death? You talking like we can survive like ancient human in africa from thousand years ago. But that's not the case anymore since we depend our life on technology and jobs. So when electricity became scarce thing, you can't do anything, even to work and eventually your family will be starve to death.
Um. It's 2024. Not 1724. Humans cannot survive without it.
Viva communisto guys!!
It's about time the US resolved its issue with the resourceful Cuban people. They have been persecuted enough.
The people always seem to pay for their leaders crimes don’t they.
Some morons will say this is the inevitable consequences of socialism.
If Cuba's model has survived 60+ years of a crushing EMBARGO, what would they have accomplished without it ? Also, if their model is so weak, why not sit back and let it fall on its own ? That they have survived decades of US strangling, attests to their resilience.
😂😂😂... Explain how embargo works when you need petrol to keep energy? Where is Russia, Iran, Venezuela...???? You won't answer because you know blaming the "embargo" IT IS A LIE...!!
Once you called it Communism the changed it to Socialism, then Leftist and now progressive... You're running out of cool names to stupidity 😂😂😂😂
Comrade, socialism is not going to work, ever. Even the Chinese told the Cubans this very thing:
"China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.
Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said."
@@sylezjuszThis is really interesting as I’ve wondered how China has developed as world power over the years. Do you have a source from this quote you shared?
Title written by a 5 year old?
Do not let another ISKAND ,go to ,you know WHO! I am tired of saying it out loud. Only the sick rich not worry theyTHEY are not in your money bracket they are in your COUNTRY! And neighbor in your secured gated commmmmmm
This post clearly attracts disturbing people. Sending prayers 🇨🇺
That’ll be useful.
Pretty sure nobody cares what's going on in cuba....
We care but their leaders are primarily to blame, they want control which they have, but cannot run things because they are incompetent communists who always fail!?!
@@MEOWMIX305 only fools
You are wrong, probably in everything at that
@@gnarlyxagock9749 B.S
@@DeeDee-2 I care about Cuba more than I care about your thoughts 🖕🏻
Is it Americas fault or is it Cuba's fault?
cuban government
@joemascone false us sanctions
C4 knows well that a fair proportion of their viewers will assume that it is the US punishing a smaller nation for no logical reason. Also, notice that the only vox pop was of a person making light of the dufficulty. They do not interview a person who might be critical of the cuban government, even secretly. They will say that this is because they would be denied access to report cuba which is true but they do not explain this to their viewers.
It's cuba's fault, yes they can stand up to the US but threaten it, that's stupidity!?!
@@adude9882 not even that because of the cuban government the system they have (communism) has it's worst internal embargo blocks cubans from producing enough value to trade with other countries. You know why because cubas biggest trading block partners are the west
It can happen to any cuntry by financial crisis, weather, war or not following the orders of the Powerful countries.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lots of comments saying "Coming to the UK soon...". What is the argument? Present an argument, or you'll look like the product of a Kremlin AI TrollFarm. Wait wat?
The blockades against Cuba means they grow predominantly organic crops. As for Cuba '...entering the Dark Age' C4 should really look at the impact climate and ecological impacts will have on water, food, energy, soils, migration etc, the rest of the world isn't that far behind. C4s pyrrhic politicisation is short lived.
Yawn.......boring, I don't think so Greta, Cuba is run by incompetent communists who manage to spend everyone else's money until it's all gone and nothing to show for it, like all communists!?!
what do you mean by blockade, Cuba has rejected capitalism. btw my music, and all western music, is banned in Cuba
Cuba doesn't grow much of anything as the people are not legally allowed to farm.
@@shauncameron8390 do you know about Fidel Castro's big idea to break all records in the production of sugar beet? he succeeded at the expense of producing other food and also produced so much sugar beet he crashed the price and lots of people starved
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂...TIENEN LO QUE MERECEN ESCOGIERON ESA REVOLUCION DE PORQUERIA 😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤡🤡🤡🥱🤥🙄👎😂🥴🥴🥴
So you are saying that todays generation should suffer for something that happened 71 years ago.
We'll blame the enemy of our own failures, Vladimir Lenin. Cuba is in the darkness of Communism since 1959. Culparemos al enemigo de nuestros propios errores, Vladimir Lenin. Cuba esta en la oscuridad del comunismo desde 1959.
Does anyone know the name of the human being ?the person who will put their name,power,money UP! Come one already all the powerful mighty on the planet. NOT one. Of y’all are going to invest? What do I not know
Pray 🙏 to our lord Jesus Christ
Investing in communist Cuba is a one way ride for your money, hence no investment!?!
I blame the US.
For what? Cuba has agency.
Cuba we are with you..🇵🇸✌🏽🇧🇩
Give them electrical power, no BS
Blame Fidel
cuba
Yes. That word is in the title. You're very bright.
cuba
Communistic Cuba, that's why it's pear shaped!?!