After days of radio silence, Cuban officials say that the massive blackouts throughout the country would end by Saturday, as another power crisis engulfed the ally of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro after the Venezuelan crisis and plunging oil production and the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela threatened an oil barter deal between the two Communist-ruled regimes earlier this year. The blackouts in recent days across Cuba were allegedly caused by mechanical problems at three power plants, while two other plants were offline for maintenance, Associated Press quoted Cuba’s Minister of Energy and Mining, Raúl García Barreiro, as telling state media on Tuesday night. The minister pledged that the issues with the power outages would be resolved by this Saturday. Dozens of Twitter users in Cuba have tweeted over the past few days the locations and durations of the power outages, while the Cuban government had stayed silent on the issue up […]