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A Cuban father identified as Eduardo Ragnar Lothbrok Muñoz Mora posted a photo on Facebook this Friday of his two small children sleeping on the porch of their building, forced to leave their home due to the unbearable heat after more than 24 consecutive hours without electricity.
In the image, the children are lying face down, in their underwear, on purple sheets, next to a barred window, in a clearly stifling environment.
"This photo may seem sweet, it may, but for me as a father, this photo is synonymous with helplessness. As a father, seeing my little ones sleep all night on a porch because we haven't had electricity for over 24 hours," the man wrote alongside the post.
Far from merely describing the scene, the father used the image to directly reject the economic reforms that the regime had announced days earlier at an Extraordinary Plenary of the Communist Party of Cuba.
"What they're doing now with these changes and so on is just another circus for me to buy time, time they have abused and failed to use when they needed to make the changes they should have made," he stated.
His message concluded with an unambiguous political demand: "It is too late for this now; the change we want and need is total, and it starts with you relinquishing power. God, Homeland, Life, and Liberty."
This is not the first time that this citizen has documented the deterioration of their daily life on social media.
On June 17, a text was published about what was referred to as the "dictatorship of numbers," outlining the reality faced by Cuban families: the dollar at 685 pesos in the informal market, an electrical deficit of nearly 2,000 MW resulting in over 20 hours of daily blackouts, a gas cylinder costing 29 dollars while most salaries do not reach 10 dollars a month, and retirees receiving barely four dollars a month.
He also noted that the ETECSA recharge costs 360 pesos and only lasts seven days, and that the price of a liter of gasoline on the black market is nearly 5,000 Cuban pesos, while in the formal market —where it costs 1.90 dollars— only 20 liters can be purchased every 180 days.
"This cruel dictatorship of mathematics understands nothing of feelings, values, or morality, and certainly, much less of ideology," he wrote on June 17.
On June 9, the same man had sought help on Facebook to find rechargeable fans that accepted payment via transfer, in order to buy them for his nephews. "These blackouts don't seem to have an end in sight," he acknowledged at the time.
The situation described by this father reflects an unprecedented energy crisis in Cuba, where the Electric Union reported deficits of up to 2,045 MW during peak hours in June 2026, with only 1,035 MW available against a demand of 3,050 MW.
In some areas of Matanzas, residents went without electricity for more than 72 consecutive hours, and in Santiago de Cuba, the outages were reorganized into nine blocks, with neighborhoods receiving barely one or two hours of electricity per day.
The Cuban electrical system has experienced at least seven total collapses in 18 months, including a national blackout on March 16, 2026, and the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant —the largest in the country— disconnected from the system for the fifth time in five weeks on June 5.
The new minimum wage announced for July 1 is 3,210 Cuban pesos per month, equivalent to less than five dollars at the informal exchange rate, a figure that starkly contrasts with the prices this father listed in his posts.
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