Cuban mothers do not take their children to school due to nighttime blackouts: "Mine is not going."

Cuban mothers have decided not to send their children to school after spending much of the night without sleep due to power outages.

Members of the Facebook group "Cuban mothers for a better world" showed all their indignation upon seeing their children lying down soaked in sweat and bitten by mosquitoes.

In Havana, where there was a nighttime power outage on Sunday, Cuban women began to write in the midst of the blackout, and announced that on Monday they would not wake up their children because they could barely rest.

"Tomorrow my child has school but he is still awake, where is he going to go tomorrow?" said a housewife in the early morning.

"My girls tell me they are not going to school tomorrow because they haven't slept at all," another woman added.

A resident in Central Havana, a mother of a girl, pointed out that because of the blackout, she goes to bed late and the next day she cannot rest in the morning because there is another scheduled blackout from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Mine is not working, how is it supposed to work if it can't even sleep and rest the necessary hours. It's already past 1 in the morning and nothing," he protested.

"My child who couldn't sleep surely won't go to school because a brain that doesn't rest is useless," said a nurse.

"Likewise, how are those innocent children going to concentrate in classes when they are sleepy due to nights and early mornings without power outages," pointed out another mother.

"I won't take her if there is no power at night, now I have it, but with things prepared because they are taking it from us in the early morning, so if there is none, she won't go!" stated a neighbor from El Vedado.

"When there is a blackout in Boyeros, I don't send my children, and when the teacher asks me, I simply tell her that if they haven't been able to sleep all night because of the blackout, they won't go to school, it's as simple as that," another mother said.

"Stay calm, ladies, we're all in the same boat and won't solve anything by panicking; let's simply not take the kids to school," urged a member of the group.

At least with mine, as long as they keep taking it from me at night and dawn, it's for nothing," another emphasized.

This worsening of the energy crisis occurs at a time when the end of the school year is approaching, when children must prepare for final exams.

And they want to test them, and start preschool diagnosis tomorrow, with sleep, heat, and a bad night. Let them do the same as in Villa Clara," wrote an accountant.

A pedagogue recalled that in the country's interior they have been suffering power outages in the early hours of the morning for several weeks. "In the provinces, children are not going to school, there are up to 17 and 20 hours without electricity, for every morning they take it away even if it's just for three hours, mothers don't send them," she said.

This is too much already, if we keep enduring this it's for nothing. They don't care about us at all, they have electricity in their house, we don't. If our children can't rest due to a blackout, no school at all,” another mother stressed.

Amidst power outages lasting up to 15 hours and the intense heat, Cubans have to sleep in doorways, on sidewalks, and even on their own doorsteps.

In Santiago de Cuba, many people sleep outdoors, including mothers with their children who lie down on the walls next to the sidewalks.

The inhuman blackouts, with cuts of up to 20 hours a day in some areas, are affecting the health of many Cubans, who explode on social media and ask the regime: "How long will the psychological torture of the people last?"

"Who explains to a child that they cannot watch television, that after sleeping poorly and having had a blackout for 16 hours (or more), they must get up to yet another blackout to go to school?" wrote activist Guelmi Abdul on Facebook.

Guelmi referred to the situation of those who live in tall buildings and have to climb 10 floors because the elevators are not working, "and also not having water because the pump depends on the electrical current."

"Who cares about the people's pain? What are they trying to achieve? That they die from heart attacks and strokes, driven even crazier than they already are, without medicines? Until when will the psychological torture of the Cuban people continue!" he expressed.

A little over 10 days ago, the Electric Union indicated that power outages will increase during the month of June due to the increased maintenance work at several thermoelectric plants.

As has been reported from January to June, maintenance activities at the thermal power plants, Energás, and distributed generation are increasing in order to reach the months of highest electricity consumption and demand, which are July and August, months when the population takes a break," explained the organization.

The Union stated that it will follow "the maintenance plan until the last days of June" in order to minimize the impact during the summer.

However, in July and August there will also be power outages "if there are unexpected shutdowns of generation units."