The Minister of Energy and Mines of Cuba, Vicente de La O Levy, appeared this Wednesday on Mesa Redonda and promised Cubans that by 2025 the government will achieve generating one minute of electricity without relying on imported fuel.
The government of the so-called "continuity" reaches unimaginable levels of foolishness and ridiculousness, and its propaganda apparatus, lacking in both phosphorus and shame, is capable of celebrating that of the 525,600 minutes in a year, the Electric Union (UNE) will be able to produce a miserable minute of light without the need for imported fuel to generate it.
As a conclusion to the hour and a half of the ill-fated program on Cuban Television, the official journalist Arleen Rodríguez Derivet ("companion at all times" of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel) announced that she had "a good piece of news for the end."
"We are convinced that, at some point next year, with the introduction of renewable energies, with the growth that Energás is going to have, the other growth that Energás is going to have, and with the repairs we are making on the thermal units I explained... we, at least, are going to have a minute next year where we will not consume imported fuel. And it will be the first minute," promised De La O Levy emphatically.
Responsible for the worst energy crisis in the history of Cuba, for the collapse of the national electric power system (SEN), for the "rate hikes" imposed on customers of the state energy monopoly, and for the energy poverty that Cubans have endured for more than six decades of its rule, the Cuban regime boasts and promises not to consume imported fuel to generate a minute of electricity in 2025.
"The goal and mission is to start fattening it up. It will be one minute, then we will move to one hour, then we will move to... ehh... until there will come a moment when the generation... That is the transition we first have to make to stop consuming imported fuel... It is a long road, it is a road full of obstacles, but it is a road that we are sure of...", said the minister.
Holding the minister's hand, with a smiling and complacent face, Rodríguez Derivet interrupted De La O Levy's optimism to deliver the message that truly matters to the Cuban regime and that should reach the audience of the Mesa Redonda: "And it is a path where we still have to endure a little more blackouts, but we must hold on a little longer."
After this, what more can be added?
The minister himself who acknowledged the failure of the strategy to "minimize blackouts" during the summer, expressed in these words the energy transition strategy of Díaz-Canel, who sees renewable energies as a new source of promises for Cubans.
But the "progress" that they signify, the "achievement" of not depending on imported fossil fuels, this new "victory" of the so-called revolution that has ruled with totalitarian and violent domination over Cubans for 65 years, will unfold minute by minute over generations (and not of electricity).
We must be prepared to celebrate that happy and glorious minute in 2025. But, as Arleen says, we also need to be ready for the blackouts that will last for tens of thousands of minutes.
Such are the "conquests" of the revolution. Amen.
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