Cuba has been experiencing widespread power outages as a result of the US’s energy blockade. (Photo: AFP)HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba’s state electricity operator said Tuesday that the power grid across the country had been reconnected after a 36-hour nationwide blackout. The embattled communist nation of more than nine million people is struggling to keep the lights on due to creaking infrastructure and a biting US energy blockade. Grid failures are “direct consequences of the genocidal US blockade against Cuba,” he posted on social media. Many of Cuba’s electricity production facilities run off fuel oil, diesel or natural gas, which are no longer regularly arriving in Cuban ports.