Early in the morning on 16th October, a fire broke out at Unit 1 of the Ernesto Guevara Power Plant in Santa Cruz del Norte, approximately 50 kilometers east of Havana. Investigators found the cause to be a lubricating oil leak in the unit's rotor. Firefighters put out the fire and no one was injured; however, by the end of the day, 75.5 percent of Cuba was expected to be without electricity at the same time, the highest percentage since the Cuban government started releasing

María Corina Machado, leader of Venezuela's opposition and winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her work advocating democracy in Venezuela, returned to Venezuela on October 25th after more than ten months in exile. Upon her return, Machado appeared at a church in Barquisimeto, in Lara state, and announced on social media that she had returned home. According to The New York Times, Machado crossed into Venezuela from Colombia. Machado's party says she had tried to enter Ve

Delcy Rodríguez, the acting president of Venezuela, spoke at an energy conference in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on October 17th. Rodríguez stated that Venezuela's oil industry would receive approximately $76 billion in investments over the next five years. Rodríguez also stated that 61 agreements had been completed with a further 44 currently under discussion. Amongst the agreements discussed was one with the U.S. that covered 17 oil fields. Only a week prior, at the annual assemb