A Bloomberg satellite analysis, cited in a TankerTrackers X post between 7:46 PM and 9:15 PM UTC on February 13, 2026, shows the 17km strip of luxury resort hotels in Varadero maintaining full power amid widespread blackouts across much of Cuba caused by President Donald Trump's oil blockade. Source: TankerTrackers X post. The post notes that Varadero's resorts serve as a huge cash cow for the Cuban economy, contrasting with the darkened areas revealed in Bloomberg's year-long data analysis of Cuba's power grid failures. The analysis attributes outages to disrupted oil supplies from the US blockade, as stated in the Bloomberg graphic linked by TankerTrackers. This update follows earlier reports on February 13 of US humanitarian aid packages appearing on Havana's black market, as claimed by a Cuba Primero activist to La Tijera News, and a US Embassy meeting demanding the release of #El4tico youth detainees.
