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A Cuban identified as Osiel Morales Díaz posted on a text that directly challenges the official narrative of the regime and has strongly resonated with those experiencing the crisis on the island: «What is the point of spending a lifetime enduring blackouts, shortages, deprivation, and hopelessness?»
The message does not confront the government directly, but rather poses an existential question: "Let’s assume my life lasts 60 years… why would I want to spend all of them merely enduring? To survive or to live?"
Moreno precisely distinguishes between two concepts that the official discourse has deliberately confused: to resist and to live.
"To resist, when there is no horizon, can become a silent prison. Time goes by, youth fades, dreams age, and one begins to wonder if they were born to build a life or just to get used to the darkness," he writes.
The text carries special significance as it directly addresses the concept of "creative resistance," which Miguel Díaz-Canel has made an ideological banner of the regime.
On January 2, 2026, Díaz-Canel invoked "67 years of creative resistance" to commemorate the anniversary of the Revolution, and repeated the phrase in events and interviews throughout the year.
On March 30, during National Defense Day, the regime urged Cubans to cook with charcoal and firewood in the face of 15-hour power outages, framing this hardship as part of the "resistance."
In response to that narrative, Morales Díaz clearly states: "Resisting only makes sense when it protects something greater: dignity, family, hope, the possibility of a different future. But when resistance becomes a permanent fate, it ceases to be strength and starts to seem like resignation."
The author also points out that the problem goes far beyond power outages: "It's not just about the lack of electricity. It's something much deeper: the feeling that existence can be consumed while waiting. Waiting for things to improve, waiting for change, waiting for what never arrives."
The message arises at the worst moment of the multidimensional Cuban crisis in decades: power outages of up to 20 hours a day with an electricity deficit exceeding 1,900 MW, 89% of the population living in extreme poverty, 80% experiencing severe food insecurity, an average monthly salary of just 16 dollars, and only 30% of essential medications available.
This picture is complemented by a historical exodus: Cuba lost more than 1.4 million inhabitants between 2020 and 2024, nearly 20% of its total population.
Morales Díaz's post adds to a growing current of voices that reject resignation disguised as revolutionary virtue.
This Monday, Cuban creator @arguellespositivo posted a video in which he acknowledged: “I know that there is no life, no opportunities, nothing, no food, no work, no water, no electricity.”
"No one should settle for merely existing in survival mode. Human life was not meant just to endure; it was also meant to dream, create, progress, love, and choose," concludes Morales Díaz, before ending with the phrase that encapsulates a generation's exhaustion: "Because to withstand a whole life without truly living cannot be the natural destiny of any human being. I'm sorry... but I can't take it anymore."
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