A Cuban named Yendry García climbed into his broken refrigerator, filled it with water, and placed it in the yard for a bath. From this unique jacuzzi, he invited his followers to "not struggle with life."
Yendry posted a video on Facebook that became one of the most celebrated clips of the season, with over 584,000 views, 36,000 likes, and 1,293 comments.
The life philosophy summarized in the video can be expressed in a single sentence, spoken with a smile from within the makeshift jacuzzi.
“Gentlemen, don’t struggle with life in Cuba, don’t struggle with the blackouts. If your refrigerator breaks down like mine did, just think of it as a jacuzzi, well, a refrigericuzzy. Don’t let these blackouts give you a heart attack! Look, I enjoy it here. It’s great!” he said as he immersed himself.
The context behind the laughter is harsh
Cuba is experiencing in 2026 one of the worst electrical crises in its history, with blackouts that in some municipalities have reached 50 hours a day and a generation deficit that exceeded 2,100 MW in May.
In that scenario, refrigerators break down nonstop. Prolonged outages, voltage fluctuations, and abrupt system restarts destroy them, and without parts to repair them or power to operate, many end up stranded in the yard like useless furniture.
Yendry García found the perfect solution: water, sun, and attitude. The audience responded with equal enthusiasm.
"Are you renting the refrigerator?" asked a user. Someone suggested, "Put some beers with ice in the freezer," and more than one person straightforwardly declared, "I'm on my way."
It's not the first time that Cubans turn a breakdown into an attraction
In 2024, a man in Holguín turned a hole left by a water company into his personal pool, and that same year a pothole in poor condition became a children's pool in another video that went viral on social media.
In February of this year, a Cuban woman shared her broken refrigerator since December 31, forcing her to live “day by day” without being able to store any food.
Humor serves here as a release valve in the face of a heavy reality.
A study published in 2026 that documented the psychological impact of blackouts found that 55.4% of the surveyed Cubans experienced extremely severe depression and 66% severe anxiety, directly linked to the disruption of daily routines such as cooking, sleeping, and preserving food.
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