Cuba Suffers Nationwide Blackout as Fuel Supplies Dwindle

A coconut water vendor as resident sit on the street in Havana on March 16.

Photographer: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

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Cuba’s electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de facto US oil blockade that’s pushed the communist-run island to the brink.