A video by Spanish journalist and economics expert Pilar García de la Granja, director of Mediodía COPE, has gone viral on social media with a powerful reflection on the situation in Cuba.
The reel, published on the COPE Facebook page on March 23, has amassed over 140,000 views, 8,500 likes, and nearly 1,000 comments.
The backdrop of his intervention is the new total blackout that Cuba experienced over the weekend, the third this month and the seventh in a year and a half.
The energy collapse occurred while a group of around 600 leftist influencers and communicators from 33 countries, including Spain, visited Havana to offer support to the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro.
"The weekend saw a new total blackout. All of Cuba went dark except for a hotel where communist militants from around the world were staying," said Pilar, referring to the Convoy "Nuestra América".
The group of international communist supporters was on their sightseeing tour when they were taken by surprise by the new power outage, but by nightfall, they were happily enjoying their hotel, looking from afar at the darkness in which Cubans live.
The blackout was caused by a failure in Unit 6 of the thermoelectric power plant in Nuevitas, Camagüey. This triggered a cascading effect in the National Electric System, leaving more than 90% of Havana and the rest of the country without electricity.
The convergence of the communists' visit and the blackout did not go unnoticed by the Spanish journalist. She pointed out the contradiction between the ideology that underpins the regime and the reality faced by the Cuban people.
"In Cuba, people do not want handouts, people want something as revolutionary as working, fair wages, and progressing in life," he stated.
He even ridiculed Herbert Marcuse, the German philosopher from the Frankfurt School regarded as the intellectual father of the New Left of the 1960s, noting that even his theories "crack" in the face of what is happening in Havana.
García de la Granja also posed a question: "I have never reported that American citizens have gone out to the Caribbean Sea infested with sharks in rafts to reach the Cuban paradise. However, I have told hundreds of times how hundreds of Cubans have lost their lives fleeing from communism. Don't you wonder why this is?"
"The people in Cuba now, as throughout history, want something as basic and as revolutionary as freedom," he expressed.
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