The islands power grid has collapsed once again and no one has power there now
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No power in Cuba
- Thread starter SomeRadioGuy
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That has been going on for many years. Irma, in 2017, severely damaged the coastal infrastructure and Melissa last year further damaged the power system... which had never been fully restored after Irma.
Irma: "September 9, 2017 - Hurricane Irma made landfall near Cayo Romano along Cuba's northern coast with winds of 165 mph (270 km/h). This made Irma the first Category 5 hurricane to strike Cuba since 1924. The hurricane weakened to a Category 2 while it moved along the country's northern coast. Rainfall on the island reached 23.9 in (610 mm) at Topes de Collantes. The storm also lashed Cuba with waves over 26 ft (7.9 m) in height, and the storm surge penetrated as far as 1.2 mi (1.9 km) inland in some areas of Villa Clara Province.[89] Irma damaged 158,554 homes, of which 14,657 were destroyed.[90] Throughout the country, the hurricane inflicted $13.185 billion in damage and killed 10 people, making Irma the costliest tropical cyclone in Cuban history."
Already decrepit Cuban physical power infrastructure combined with no fuel for generating electricity. There is a complete oil chokehold on the island.
We might be seeing the final days of the Cuban government in its present form. It has not been this close to total collapse since the 1959 revolution. Will be fascinating to see what happens next, though there will be a lot of trauma the Cuban people will have to endure.
We might be seeing the final days of the Cuban government in its present form. It has not been this close to total collapse since the 1959 revolution. Will be fascinating to see what happens next, though there will be a lot of trauma the Cuban people will have to endure.
Interesting facts:
US population 1960 : 203 million
US population 2020: 330 million
Cuban population 1970: 9 million
Cuban population 2025: 10.8 million
People have either emigrated or avoided having children in Cuba. So all they had to do was sustain the infrastructure, not expand it. Yet in the last 20 years, China has rebuilt the entire AM and FM system in that country, with about 300 total stations on the air now.
But the U.S. did not blockade China like it has blockaded Cuba so I don't really think the comparison is fair. To me, the ultimate question comes down to: do we, as a country, have the right to destroy other countries simply because we don't like their leadership. (Of course, this is much broader than radio or media and I won't go any further into the topic.)
This is more of a political subject, but Cuba was highly involved since the early 60’s in fomenting revolution… of the armed kind… all over Latin America.
In 1965, during the lunch hours when office staff went home for lunch, my radio station in Quito, Ecuador, was taken over by armed “rebels” who broke down the door and beat up and tied the DJ who was on the shift. They broadcast about ten minutes of Castro and Che Guevara slogans and drivel and fled through the trash chute.
There were comparable instances, all promoted, financed and encouraged by Cuba.
970- and 11760 are on tonight... i dont think they were a few days ago
I'll always remember when I lived in Tampa, I believe it was 1986, and I had the radio in the kitchen tuned to a local station, 620 AM.
It was the early afternoon.
All of the sudden, a Spanish station started fading in and then completely took over the frequency for about a minute.
It then started to fade out just as fast as it faded in and was gone.
I never heard that happen again but I assumed the Cubans were doing some kind of a test to see if they could block our local frequencies.
It was the early afternoon.
All of the sudden, a Spanish station started fading in and then completely took over the frequency for about a minute.
It then started to fade out just as fast as it faded in and was gone.
I never heard that happen again but I assumed the Cubans were doing some kind of a test to see if they could block our local frequencies.