The slip of a Cuban official in Isla de la Juventud highlighted the distortions in the language used by representatives of the Cuban regime to avoid naming reality as it is.
“Power outages continue, meaning there is an impact on customers, I apologize…” said Ignacio Moya, the director of the dispatch unit of the Electric Union in the special municipality, on the local telecenter's YouTube channel.
While providing the daily report on the electro-energetic situation in the territory, the official slipped and uttered the forbidden word, which names the reality that the Cuban people endure daily: blackouts.
The escalating electricity crisis in the Isle of Youth has sparked an unprecedented movement of citizen discontent that goes beyond mere complaints about power outages.
Recently, social media users spread messages calling for the independence of this Cuban territory, demanding its own republic, free from the control of the central government in Havana.
Although historically the Island had managed to maintain energy stability thanks to its independent generation system, since early June, residents of the island have been facing interruptions of up to five hours a day, without a clear pattern or solutions in sight.
Citizen testimonies suggest that the decline began when “two generators were taken to Havana,” according to rumors circulating within the community. Since then, discontent has been mounting.
Around that same time, several placards with messages against the ruling Miguel Díaz-Canel and the Cuban communist system appeared in Santa Fe, Island of Youth, marking an unusual event in this locality.
The graffiti was done on visible structures of the "Florecita de Azahar" children's circle and at a bus stop in front of this educational institution, according to reports and photographs sent to the editorial office of CiberCuba.
Among the written phrases, expressions such as “Díaz-Canel is a fool,” “Down with communism,” “Homeland and Life,” and “Freedom” can be seen, slogans that reflect the social discontent that gained momentum after the popular uprising on July 11, 2021 (11J).
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