A Cuban man was caught this morning while still asleep, after spending the night on a rooftop on what appears to be a mattress and covered by a mosquito net.
It is a clever initiative to be able to sleep in the midst of the constant and unbearable power outages that plague the population across the island.
"This is how dawn breaks in Cuba," user Saúl Manuel expressed on his Facebook account.
Although the author of the post does not provide details about where the photo was taken, the scene could occur at any point in the Cuban geography.
More than a thousand people commented on the post, some said that they also slept on the roof of their house, while others expressed a desire to live in a house with a concrete roof so they could do the same.
"At least he has a mosquito net, many of us don't have one," said a man.
"This is how my neighborhood wakes up every day, with children on the porches," another one reported.
Anyone gets sick with that chill all night long. I remembered the times of Hurricane Ike. Very sad overall," said a resident in Florida.
"The one on top of the license plate still has something, like the children or the bedridden people or the one in a cast...", a woman lamented.
The suffering of us Cubans is great with 15 hours or more of blackouts, mosquitoes, heat, and crying children, and we resist so that those in charge can live," stated a mother.
"We have to spend the night with cardboard fanning the baby, it's unbearable, we can't even rest, let alone sleep," said a father.
"It's out of obligation, not choice. And I know how it feels because during the Special Period, I also slept that way so the mosquitoes wouldn't wake me up and I could endure the heat a little. Such a shame and embarrassment that 23 years later nothing has improved in that country," said another Cuban from Luanda.
"We have to live like this. They don't even let us sleep. It's desperate to spend the early morning with heat and mosquitoes. The damage we have is immense. I lost track of how long we have been like this," stressed a resident in Bayamo.
This Tuesday, the Electric Union (UNE) published a disheartening report in which it announced power outages that could reach up to 1,440 MW during peak hours, a figure that did not improve much during the daytime hours, when disruptions of around 950 MW were projected.
The UNE admitted that on Monday, as is customary, the electric service was affected 24 hours a day, with blackouts reaching 1,356 MW at 9:00 pm, 316 MW above what was estimated by experts.
In recent days, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel admitted that there are no guarantees that the summer months will pass without disruptions to the electricity service.
"There may be a blackout at a specific time, and we will work to ensure that they are not prolonged, that they are not of long duration," he commented.
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