A mattress placed on a cart, covered with a mosquito net and outdoors, represents the form of "creative resistance" that some Cubans are currently using to make power outages affecting the population more bearable.
The heartbreaking scene was shared on Facebook this Tuesday by a user identified as Saúl Manuel, who accompanied the image with a brief text reflecting the distress experienced by the residents of the island after several years of power outages: "This is how Cuba wakes up."
Although the person sharing the image does not provide details of where the photo was taken, the scene could occur at any point in the Cuban geography, as power outages affect all provinces and cities.
In the comments section, social media users agreed on describing the situation of nightly blackouts affecting Cubans as "criminal," as they hinder the completion of daily activities such as attending school or work.
"This is the revolution promised by the dictator Fidel Castro," said Julio Alberto Arias Tejeda.
"What a miserable life we live from dawn to dusk, how much longer will this ordeal be," lamented Isabel Sarduis.
A person named Elizabeth De León Fuentes commented: "Many people are not hurt by that, they laugh at the needs, but what hurts them the most is that Cuba wakes up like this."
"That's what I call resisting with creativity," said Fraciela Hernández Córdova.
Last May, another Cuban was found at dawn while still sleeping, after spending the night on a rooftop on what appears to be a mat and covered by a mosquito net.
This is a clever initiative to be able to sleep amidst the constant and unbearable power outages that plague the population across the island.
Recently, the comedian Ulises Toirac described on Facebook the reality affecting Cubans: "Mothers inventing in the stoves, children who couldn't rest due to the heat and mosquitoes, elderly people hanging their socks outside the windows, washed by hand and without soap."
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