Cuba declares 'energy emergency' as outages exceed 90 hours in Pinar del Río

A senior Cuban Communist Party official in Pinar del Río publicly acknowledged an 'energy emergency' with blackouts lasting over 90 hours, marking an unusually candid admission of the severity of the island's power crisis. The statement signals potential systemic grid failure and heightened risk of social unrest, though the full geographic scope and duration of outages remain unclear.