Cuban reports 52 hours of blackout in Havana: "All my food spoiled"

The Cuban activist Adelth Bonne Gamboa shared a message on social media this Sunday, expressing his distress after more than 52 hours without electricity due to the collapse of the National Electric System.

"52 hours of blackout and it's still not here, all my food spoiled, I don't have a healthy nerve," Bonne pointed out on Facebook, reflecting the feelings of thousands of Cubans who are still without electric service after the collapse of the national energy system last Friday.

Bonne expressed her deep concern about the losses caused by the prolonged blackout: “I only think about my battery running out, my nerves running out, and above all, I don’t know how I am going to recover all my losses,” she noted, highlighting how difficult it is nowadays to maintain a minimum supply of refrigerated food, due to the high prices caused by inflation.

The young man also pointed out that every hour, a patrol parks in front of his house and sounds the siren: “My neighbors run to alert me, they have been keeping an eye out, but I can hear them from my house,” said the activist, who has been a victim of harassment by the Cuban political police on several occasions.

In a later post, Bonne showed her refrigerator completely open, expressing her frustration over the lack of electricity: “If they want, they can stop it altogether; there’s nothing left that can be saved. A big hug to all Cubans who are in the same situation as me. Stay strong!”

Although the regime announced the gradual restoration of service in Havana, only about thirty circuits had service at noon this Sunday, primarily in the municipalities of Guanabacoa, Boyeros, San Miguel del Padrón, and Cotorro, reported the Electric Company of Havana on Facebook.

The serious situation facing the country, due to the imminent passage of Hurricane Oscar through the eastern region and the efforts to restore the national electrical system, which has completely collapsed since last Friday, the Cuban government announced this Sunday the suspension of all non-essential administrative and educational activities for the next three days.