The serious energy crisis combined with the lack of fuel on the Island is once again leading to unusual images for the 21st century, such as a mother who had to resort to cooking with firewood in the middle of a central street in the city of Holguín.
A video shared on social media shows the woman keeping an eye on a pressure cooker placed on firewood, cooking some food.
A Cuban mother chooses to cook food in the middle of the street in front of everyone; not even the Stone Age equals what is happening right now on our Island kidnapped by the dictatorship," said the account on X Café con Chícharo.
However, the images are not atypical in a country where crisis and scarcity are constant aspects of daily life.
In 2022, during another critical peak of the energy situation, a Cuban woman "boasted" on Facebook about the peculiar improvised kitchen where she prepared food for her family.
"How a Cuban cooks, without electricity and under the rain," posted on the social network, along with several photographs of their kitchen. They also said they "feel happy."
In the images, the woman is showing an improvised stove made with two blocks and firewood, which she is protecting from the rain using an umbrella and banana plant leaves.
That same year, another Cuban mother reported the conditions in which she cooked food for her triplet children, amid the prolonged blackouts on the island.
Resisting, this misery is continuity. Mother of triplets," she said firmly on Facebook.
Along with her post, the woman, residing in Santiago de Cuba, published four photographs where she is seen cooking on an improvised wood stove in the basement of a building.
After two years, the images are repeated in a country immersed in the optimistic promise of its leaders' speeches that things will improve. However, what the Cuban people have feared since the blackouts intensified has just been confirmed by ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel: there are no guarantees that the summer months will pass without disruptions in the electricity service in 2024.
Díaz-Canel reiterated what the Electric Union (UNE) announced days ago, that power cuts will increase this month and next due to the rise in maintenance work at the thermoelectric plants, in an effort to ensure service in July and August.
"We will have extended maintenance until the month of June to minimize the inconvenience of blackouts in the summer, especially in the months of July and August," he pointed out.
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