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While the Cuban regime deploys resources and mobilizes its entire propaganda apparatus to entertain the members of the so-called Our America Convoy, the people are facing the second total disconnection of the SEN in one week.
In the context of a severe energy crisis marked by the aging of thermal plants, lack of fuel, and constant breakdowns—factors that result in daily blackouts across much of the country—political pilgrims from the international left have once again chosen Cuba as their theme park
The arrival of the first shipment of aid to Cuba linked to this international initiative, which arrived by air from Europe with supplies marked with flags from various countries, is driven by organizations, activists, and leftist political figures advocating for the shipment of food, medicines, and other essential products to the island amid the current economic and energy crisis.
According to the organizers, the convoy is expected to transport over 20 tons of humanitarian aid through various means—air, land, and sea—toward Cuban territory.
In the coming days, the arrival of new groups and shipments is expected, including a delegation traveling from Mexico this weekend with more supplies.
The visit of these activists has consisted of a series of meetings held in recent days with officials and institutions of the Cuban state, including exchanges with the leader Miguel Díaz-Canel.
The journalist Yoani Sánchez reacted on social media this Saturday to these visits with a direct message: “We are not a theme park. Go do your ideological tourism somewhere else. We are suffering here.”
The comment reflects a discontent that has also been expressed by intellectuals and citizens who denounce the political exploitation of the Cuban crisis.
Previously, the musicologist and historian Rosa Marquetti criticized what she termed the “folklorization of Cuban misery” and questioned international initiatives that, in her opinion, turn the country's situation into a symbolic stage for ideological debates.
Criticism has intensified following statements from some members of the Convoy, such as the former Spanish vice president Pablo Iglesias, who have downplayed the seriousness of the internal situation or attributed the crisis solely to external factors.
The first of these widespread blackouts of the week, which are becoming increasingly common, occurred last Monday.
On Friday, the First Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines, Argelio Jesús Abad Vigoa, acknowledged that the distributed electricity generation in Cuba is halted due to a lack of fuels, worsening the energy crisis that is affecting the country.
The official described the current situation as the most complex that the SEN has faced so far, during a press conference in front of the members of the Nuestra América convoy, at the International Press Center in Havana.
Abad explained that the country has gone three months without receiving supplies of diesel, fuel oil, gasoline, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, essential fuels for sustaining various sectors of the economy and also for electricity generation.
The deputy minister acknowledged that this situation has incapacitated the operational capacity of distributed generation, a system based on engines and small power plants whose installation was promoted by the dictator Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and which the government had presented for years as one of the main alternatives to strengthen the national electrical system (SEN).
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