Andrea Rodriguez | Associated Press

HAVANA — A total blackout hit Cuba on Wednesday, the latest in a series of outages blamed on aging infrastructure and fuel shortages at power plants.

It was the second island-wide outage this year, with three other blackouts reported late last year.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines said on social platform X the latest outage could be tied to a malfunction at one of Cuba’s biggest thermoelectric plants.

Argelio Abad, the ministry’s vice minister, said on state TV the grid shut down after an apparently erroneous message warning of overheating disconnected the thermoelectric plant. He added that officials immediately began to build a type of microsystem to deliver electricity to infrastructure that provides basic services.

The ministry said crews were

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