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| Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel |
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel rejected U.S. accusations that Cuba poses a "threat to U.S. national security," saying that it is the United States that poses the threat.
"Cuba is not the threat, the threat is the United States," the Cuban president wrote in a post on the social networking site X on Saturday, against the backdrop of a widespread power outage in his country.
He added that "the new collapse of the national electricity grid, which occurred just days after the previous one, complicates the repair work, but the energy workers have not given up."
He noted that some power plants are now starting to operate, and others are doubling their operating capacity, adding that "this is a very complex process, which we are forced to carry out under conditions of an oil embargo that amounts to genocide."
It is worth noting that Cuba experienced its second power outage in the past week on July 10, with most of the republic's territory without electricity.
Cuba has been suffering from an energy crisis since oil supplies from Venezuela were halted in early January due to a crippling US embargo on supplies.
