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US blames Cuba in power struggle at Havana mission
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A week-long US power struggle with Cuba ended Tuesday when electricity returned to the US mission in Havana, but a US spokesman doubted storms were to blame for the lengthy blackout.
A Havana newspaper blamed a wave of storms for the outage, which began June 5.
"You'll excuse me if I don't take that explanation at face value," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington.
Cuba's official newspaper on Tuesday blamed "poor weather" for cuts all over Cuba.
Granma also said US "bald-face lies" calling the cuts intentional were a pretext to further damage relations, which have been on the rocks for four decades.
"This is an authoritarian regime. It's not as though they don't control the power company and whether or not the power gets cut off to the US interests section," McCormack said.
"It is very, very strange. I'd lay this out for you, whether it's coincidence or not, but it's the only building or compound on the block that doesn't have power," he said.
The US mission has been on generator power and suffers periodic water shortages as well, he said.
"And we did pay our power bill," he added.
The US mission in Havana confirmed to AFP that the juice was on.
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