The inhumane blackouts that Cubans endure, with power cuts lasting up to 20 hours a day in some areas, have become an unsustainable situation for many. They are expressing their frustrations on social media and criticizing the regime, asking: “How much longer will the psychological torture of the people continue?”
For the eighth time in nine days, the Cuban Electric Union (UNE) reported outages lasting 24 hours on Tuesday, amidst the severe energy crisis the country is facing. This has forced many families, including children, to sleep in the streets in a futile attempt to find some rest at night.
"Who explains to a child that they can't watch television, that after a restless night and having experienced 16 hours (or more) of blackout, they have to wake up to another blackout to go to school?" wrote activist Guelmi Abdul on Facebook, who has previously voiced the struggles of families living in extreme poverty in the country.
This woman conveyed the general discomfort of the population in Cuba by asking, "Who explains to a bedridden elderly person that they must endure the heat with temperatures above 38 degrees Celsius?" as prolonged blackouts, coupled with the intense heat, turn days and nights on the island into a true nightmare.
The internet user illustrated how this situation worsens for those living in high-rise buildings, who have to climb ten floors or more because the elevators aren't working due to power outages, "and on top of that, they don't have water because the pump relies on electricity."
The distressed woman wondered, "Who feels the pain of the people?" and, addressing the government, she asked, "What do you intend? For them to die from heart attacks and strokes, becoming crazier than they already are and without any medicine? How long will this psychological torture of the Cuban people continue?"
Finally, he blamed the leader Miguel Díaz-Canel for the regime's inability to resolve the current energy crisis: “While the president is living the sweet life, as if nothing is happening. Enough already!!!” he finally burst out.
Yaily De Armas' mother also joined the chorus of voices protesting on social media due to the brutal blackouts suffered by the community.
"Look at the Cuban children sleeping in the doorways of the houses! Those that have doorways, because for those that don’t, it’s a complete sleepless night, as there’s no one left inside the houses," he stated on Facebook.
The woman accompanied the report with an image that touches the heart of anyone who feels compassion for seeing children asleep on the porch of a house.
"It's already an abuse; the power outages last for eight hours or more, and tomorrow they will continue affecting schools and workplaces. If they take it away from us all day, why do they take it away again at night?" the woman expressed, explaining how the electricity cuts disrupt daily life for the population, making it unbearable to live in the country.
A Cuban mother living in Santiago de Cuba expressed her frustration this Wednesday as she showed how her two children lay down on the porch trying to sleep during a power outage in the early morning, one of the most difficult challenges to endure in the unbearable energy crisis plaguing the country.
"We are here at the entrance of the house because the children can't sleep due to the heat. It's three in the morning. They got up from their room to sleep here. They didn't go to school yesterday. Today they can't go to school either because, just imagine, I'm not going to wake them up at seven in the morning," complained the Cuban woman in a video shared on social media by journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
The Cuban regime, far from finding a solution to the current energy crisis, is anticipating protests during the summer.
"United States launches new attempts to 'heat up' the streets during the summer, taking advantage of the complex situation in the country, according to the latest interests of its intelligence agencies to carry out attacks against Cuba, in what they call Operation 11.7.24," said the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) on the social network X.
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