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Twelve families in the building located at the corner of 15 and 20 streets in Vedado, Havana, have been without electricity for over 100 hours due to a breakdown that requires just 25 meters of three-phase cable, which the Electric Company of Havana has yet to provide.
The report was published this Friday by the citizen Yaneisis Batista González in the Facebook group “Empresa Eléctrica de La Habana,” where she identified the case with the official report #27957 and explained that the interruption began on Monday at 7:00 a.m.
According to the resident, the issue has already been diagnosed by technicians but remains unresolved. “The fault has been diagnosed: it is a pending connection for just 25 meters of three-phase cable. It is unacceptable that the Electric Company keeps 12 apartments in the dark over such a short stretch of cable,” she stated.
Batista González added that the situation is affecting families with children, elderly individuals, and sick people who have been without electricity for five days. The lack of power has also led to interruptions in the water supply due to the inability to pump it to the building.
"We have been without electricity since last Monday at 7:00 a.m., over 100 hours of interruption," wrote the neighbor in her public complaint, in which she demanded an immediate solution from the Electric Company of Havana and the municipal government of Plaza de la Revolución.
The post sparked dozens of reactions and comments of outrage among social media users, some of whom questioned the lack of materials to address a fault that requires only a few meters of cable.
Among the messages shared, a user pointed out that what stands out the most is that in other areas of the capital, electric resources are guaranteed for official activities. "What's really frustrating is that there was cable and electricity for the event at 23 and 12," they wrote.
The case occurs in a context of severe energy crisis in Cuba. The authorities have acknowledged that the country absolutely lacks fuel for almost everything, which worsens the capacity to respond to local breakdowns, such as the one affecting these families in Vedado, who have been unable to refrigerate food or maintain minimal living conditions for days.
Power outages have reached critical levels across the island, with today's forecast indicating a electricity deficit of 1,848 MW during peak hours, a figure that reflects the structural collapse of a system that has experienced seven total disconnections of the electrical system in the last 18 months.
The energy crisis also directly affects access to drinking water: more than 200,000 Havana residents remain without water service as a direct consequence of prolonged blackouts that disable the supply pumps.
Amid this situation, the Cuban comedian and actor Ulises Toirac criticized the official event commemorating the 65th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Cuban revolution, describing it as a "waste of resources at 23 and 12", while millions of Cubans were suffering from power outages across the country.
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