It's the second outage to have affected Cuba's western region in the past three months as the country struggles with dwindling oil reserves.

Cuba said it has filed terrorism charges against six suspects it says were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that allegedly opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island’s north coast.

Speculation about what's next for Havana comes as the U.S. continues to attack Iran and shortly after Trump ordered U.S. forces to depose Venezuela's president.

A Cuban official 13 bullet holes were found on the border guard boat and 21 others on the suspect’s vessel, “meaning that there was combat.”

President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for urgent change to the island’s state-centered economic model

“Every single one, except, I would say, Obama, had as a policy, one way or another, to bring an end to the Cuban government,” William LeoGrande, a co-author of Back Channel to Cuba, a history of negotiations between Washington and Havana, told me.

The government unveiled items said to have been found on the boat, including high-powered weapons, more than 12,800 pieces of ammunition and 11 pistols.

The Cuban president's comments come as Cuba feels the squeeze of a recent oil blockade coupled with a halt in oil shipments from Venezuela.