Díaz-Canel visits Mariel thermoelectric power plant: "We know that they are working hard."

This Tuesday morning, the Cuban state media repeated on their front pages the visit of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel to the Ernesto Guevara Thermoelectric Power Plant in Santa Cruz del Norte.

They did this with their usual monitoring of the president's and other Cuban leaders' tours, but they also assured that the one appointed by Raul Castro fulfills something he said in his YouTube program "From the Presidency," regarding the fact that "every effort is dedicated to seeking stability in the National Electric System."

Among so many promises from the Cuban leader, it seems that overseeing the execution of the maintenance actions that the regime claims to carry out to ensure a summer without electrical disruptions is the one he excels at.

According to the Presidency of Cuba on its social media, "due to the priority of recovering generation capabilities, the president is starting the visit to the Mayabeque municipality at the thermal power plant, which is currently undergoing maintenance on two of its three blocks."

The same source ensures that "today only Unit #2 is synchronized, providing 52 MW," while Block 1 "is undergoing extended partial maintenance for 77 days."

They claim that with the improvements "it is intended to exceed 90 MW".

“These maintenance tasks will increase the generation capacity in order to reach between 195 and 200 MW during the warmer months,” explained engineer Yasnel Torres Asencio, director of the Ernesto Guevara CTE, to Díaz-Canel.

On the other hand, the ruler gave his impressions about the work carried out by the workers. "It gives a lot of confidence, we know they are working hard," he expressed in a usual strategy to boost the morale of the workers, aware that they work under terrible conditions and without the appropriate equipment.

Despite the tours to the power plants across the country and the promises that the situation will improve soon, the leader has had to acknowledge that there are no guarantees that the summer months will pass without disruptions in the electrical service.

He did it on his own Youtube program where he addressed the situation of electricity generation and short, medium, and long-term projections.

Still, during one of those visits he makes to municipalities, specifically to Banes in Holguín, he asked the children in that area if they were enduring severe blackouts.