The Cuban comedian Reuel Remedios, through his character Lindoro Incapaz, published a new video on Facebook this Saturday in which he satirizes, with his usual mastery, the electrical crisis that is crushing Cuba, and which has already garnered thousands of views. The sketch is titled, with all the philosophy in the world, "What Comes is WHAT COMES".
The video begins with the usual greeting: "Greetings, folks! How is the brave collective of workers doing? Worried. Very worried." And the reason for such concern isn't a blackout—although that would be the norm—but quite the opposite: the power has been on for too long in their area, which, in Cuba in 2026, is cause for alarm.
The character recounts with a detective's expression that "they turned on the electricity last night around 2 a.m." and that, after 2 p.m. the following day, they still hadn't cut it off. Twelve hours of continuous power. A scandal. A statistical anomaly. Almost a secular miracle.
Faced with such irregularity, Lindoro did what any well-informed Cuban citizen would do: he went to check the company's Telegram group. "Curiously, I started looking in the Telegram group, where the electric company posts all the information," the character explains with the solemnity of someone consulting KGB archives. And there, in capital letters, he found the message that left him pondering: "freeze everything" followed by three ellipses. "Could that mean something?" he wonders, genuinely intrigued.
The question is not rhetorical. In a country where the electrical deficit reached a historic high of 2,153 MW on May 13, with an availability of only 1,230 MW against a demand of 3,250 MW, any message from the power company can mean anything, or nothing, which amounts to the same thing.
Miguel Díaz-Canel himself acknowledged that day that the National Electroenergetic System was "particularly tense," a description that the people of Havana, where some circuits experienced between 20 and 22 hours daily without electricity, likely regarded as an Olympic-sized euphemism.
On May 16, the impact reached 2,041 MW, leaving approximately 51% of the country without power simultaneously. Cuba has been mired in an electrical crisis for months that in March included at least four nationwide blackouts over four months, one of which was a total system disconnection on March 16.
In this context, Lindoro Incapaz has been one of the mirrors that the regime refuses to look into for over a decade. In April, he proposed a "lunch plan" for Cuban workers made from marabú, the invasive weed that covers half the island, and remarked that "you buy 10 liters of gasoline and go two months without eating." He also diagnosed that the only diet that makes Cuban leaders lose weight is precisely the "gasoline diet," although it seems that no one in the upper echelons has tried it yet.
Its formula is as simple as it is effective: to speak as a leader would, in order to express exactly what no leader would ever say. The result resonates with millions of Cubans who see their everyday lives reflected in each sketch.
The video closes with Lindoro in the rain, resigned and philosophical: "It's raining, I'm going to go under shelter and see if things freeze..." In Cuba, he concludes this scene: "what's coming is what's coming," and everyone knows it's not redundant.
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