Daniela Reyes fed up with blackouts and internet: "Being an influencer from Cuba is madness"

The Cuban influencer Daniela Reyes has resorted to her Instagram stories to express her frustration at the continuous power outages and unstable internet connection in Cuba, which significantly affects her work as a content creator on the platform.

"I am very desperate because right now I made a lot of stories explaining several things to them... and nothing, nothing was uploaded," she commented.

The influencer explained that she had recorded the stories directly from the Instagram app, and when she lost the connection, she also lost all the material, which caused her a great deal of frustration. "It even gave me a headache from despair," she added.

The situation becomes even more complicated when, even with the return of electricity, the internet connection still doesn't work properly. In her cathartic videos, the young woman referred to how the service instability not only affects her ability to upload stories but also to respond to her followers' questions and post reels, like the one she had planned for Father's Day.

Since the morning, they cut off the electricity; then they turned it back on, and then they cut it off again," he recounted, illustrating the difficulties he faces, which, however, are not as dramatic in the capital as in other areas of the country.

The influencer emphasized the emotional impact that these issues have on her daily life and work, describing a cycle of power outages and lack of internet that is "frustrating."

This testimony by Daniela Reyes is part of a context of crisis on the island, where complaints about power outages and other shortages that dominate the daily lives of Cubans are recurring.

The influencer, for her part, has referred on other occasions to the difficulties that Cubans in general face, such as when last May she mentioned that she experienced a 10-hour blackout upon her return to Cuba from Cancun.

"It's very sad what is happening in my country," he lamented on that occasion.

The young woman, Yomil's partner, has also expressed her dream of a Cuba where it is not necessary to emigrate to seek better opportunities, a reality that she feels is distant given the current state of the country.