A Cuban walked through his home with a camera to humorously and sarcastically showcase the appliances that the energy crisis has turned into mere decorative objects: a refrigerator broken due to low voltage, a coffee maker without coffee, a toaster without bread, and a Russian washing machine repurposed as a charcoal stove.
The video, posted on Facebook by Yendry Garcia with the caption "Things you find in houses in Cuba as relics," has surpassed 130 thousand views and 4 thousand reactions in just two days, reflecting the deep connection of Cubans to the situation described.
In the 50-second segment, Yendry introduces each of the household appliances with an irony that doesn't hide the underlying critique. Regarding the broken refrigerator, he says: "He's one of the lucky ones who got a low voltage and broke down. At least he got low voltage; in many homes, they don't even get any voltage."
The freezer, which does work, isn't spared: "It's here for no reason, because there's no power to cool it down, nor any meat to put in it."
The list continues with the same logic: "The coffee maker that has no coffee, the toaster that has no bread, the television that has no power and doesn't do anything useful, the meat grinder that has neither meat nor electricity."
It also shows a blender that her brother sent her from abroad, equally useless. The highlight of the video is the Russian washing machine: "This is not a relic; it's using the coal stove function. Ay ay ay."
The video was published on the same day when the electrical outage in Cuba reached 1,261 MW at six in the morning, with projections of up to 1,920 MW during the nighttime peak, and the blackouts in Havana lasted up to 22 hours daily.
The fuel crisis, exacerbated by the cessation of Venezuelan and Mexican supplies since January and February 2026, has led to thousands of Cuban families cooking with charcoal and firewood, using old washing machine drums as braziers, exactly the usage shown in the video.
Users' comments reflected a widespread identification with what was shown. "This is Cuba as a whole, my child; it’s sad what we are experiencing"; "We have everything, but it’s all for nothing"; "At least you have that; I don't have even that, whether it works or not"; "We are all living in relics like you, fellow countryman"; "What is happening in Cuba is pure reality," various users wrote.
Others found relief in humor: "There's no electricity, but humor never fades"; "I liked the TV bit: there's no power and nothing worth watching," they remarked.
The video joins a well-established trend on Cuban social media of using humor as a means of resistance and protest against a precarious situation that the regime has not resolved, in which the 80% of Cubans consider it the worst crisis since the Special Period of the 1990s.
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