Residents of Santiago de Cuba report 16 hours without electricity and inaction from the Electric Company.

Residents of a neighborhood in Santiago de Cuba reported having gone 16 hours without electricity due to a short circuit, while the Electric Company, despite having promised greater efficiency after receiving new vehicles, has not resolved the issue.

The journalist Yosmany Mayeta reported on Facebook this Monday that some residents of the Altamira neighborhood had been without electricity since the previous day, due to a short circuit that occurred at five in the afternoon.

The person who made the complaint explained that since that moment they called the Electric Company, and 16 hours later, it had not solved the problem.

A few days ago, the Electric Company of Santiago de Cuba held a political event to receive new vehicles that would be used to reduce response times to electricity service interruptions, a promise that has not been fulfilled, as incident reports continue to accumulate without a timely solution.

"The complaints and writings on the page exceed 12 hours of incident reporting," Mayeta noted.

The journalist shared another situation that had also not been resolved.

In another incident, a pole fell along with the transformer on the Caney road, near the cabaret, affecting several families.

The young woman who made the complaint warned that the Electric Company had not come to fix the problem: “Everything is still the same and things have even shifted more because only the wires are holding the pole that supports a little horse.”

In July, an electric pole fell in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and the delay of the Electric Company in resolving the issue led residents to question whether the regime was prepared to face the rains and winds caused by hurricanes in the current hurricane season.

Journalist Mayeta posted on Facebook about the incident that occurred on Second Street in Sorribe, between Cuabitas and Patricio Lumumba, denouncing that the inaction of the local government endangers the population, as the street remains open to pedestrian and vehicle traffic.

In April, a group of houses was without electricity for several hours in the Altamira neighborhood, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, after some cables caught fire, confirming the deplorable condition in which the electrical installations exist.

Furthermore, the delay of the Electric Company in resolving the issue highlighted the poor management of the entity.