A group of neighbors in the Alamar neighborhood, in the Havana municipality of Habana del Este, reacted with applause on Tuesday night to an unexpectedblackout, which was also not the first of the day.
“This is in Alamar, it is the sixth time they have turned off the light today. People are clapping in mockery. It was at 9:18 pm,” explained a neighbor in statements toCyberCuba, which was accompanied by a short video of the spontaneous applause in the middle of the darkness.
However, that blackout was the sixth, but it would not be the last either.
"Almost an hour, he came and left again for another hour. Now in the early morning he left twice, the second time at 5:30 and we are still without power," the same reader wrote to our media in the early hours of this Tuesday.
Something similar happened in certain areas of the Santos Suárez neighborhood, in the capital's 10 de Octubre municipality, where applause was also heard in reaction to an unexpected blackout.
The government has not made any announcement about the occurrence of blackouts during these difficult days in which Cubans have added, to the usualshortage of food and hygiene products, the growing concern about the spread of coronavirus, with726 confirmed cases in the country and 21 deaths.
To this we must add that the confinement and the necessary call not to go out into the streets has been accompanied by aheat that these days breaks records on the island, withtemperature of 39.7 degrees Celsius in the Granma province, this past Sunday; and a maximum temperature of 38.5 degrees in Havana's Casablanca station, that same day.
To make matters worse, there is not much water either. A little more than 15 days ago, the President of the Institute of Hydraulic Resources, Antonio Rodríguez Rodríguez, recognized that more thanhalf a million Cubans lacks a regular supply of drinking water.
With such a panorama, an explosion of applause in the middle of the darkness is a mocking or ironic reaction not to a simple blackout, but rather a way out of the accumulated stress that has its origin in much more than the coronavirus.
Regarding the blackouts, on February 20, during an evaluation meeting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, almost two months ago,Miguel Diaz-Canel He described it as a “true miracle” that there had been no blackouts in the midst of the energy crisis that the country was going through due to fuel shortages.
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