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The Cuban comedian and actor Ulises Toirac posted a powerful reflection on Facebook regarding the crisis in Cuba, directly blaming the regime for its inability to anticipate and manage the energy collapse that is impacting the population at the onset of summer.
"Every year there is summer. And they couldn't even see that..." the text begins, which in just a few lines delivers a devastating diagnosis of the energy crisis shaking the country.
Toirac warns that the worst months of heat are yet to come and that the situation with electricity has already become unbearable. "June has not even ended, and the intolerable frequency of blackouts is imposing extremely harsh conditions on the people," he writes.
The criticism of the regime is direct and uncompromising.
The comedian describes those in power as "kings with no idea of what it feels like to live this way," surrounded by a retinue of followers who applaud "absolutely capitalist" measures while presenting them as "achievements of socialism."
The most immediate target is the National Assembly, which has just approved a package of 176 economic measures, including private banking, private currency exchange, and the transformation of state companies into commercial enterprises. Toirac sarcastically asks, "What the hell are they serving for snacks in that Assembly?"
Also remember that the decline in living conditions gets worse every day, while the leadership only tries to "buy time with the neighbors to the North and loosen the noose."
The actor points to an increase in civic protests and clarifies that people have not lost their fear. “They are fed up with being ignored in their misery, with the mockery of seeing that the reins are held by a bodyguard without any other position, who speaks on behalf of the country,” he writes, making a direct reference to the Cangrejo.
And in a critique of the real structure of power in Cuba, he notes that "in reality, the reins have never been held by the public government but by the hidden one."
The reflection comes at a time of maximum social tension. The Electric Union reports deficits of over 2,000 MW during the nighttime peak, with outages lasting more than 24 consecutive hours in Havana.
The cacerolazo and the burning of tires in San Miguel del Padrón, La Güinera, and Carlos III last Friday are part of a wave of protests spreading across Havana daily. The Cuban Conflict Observatory counted 1,311 demonstrations just in May.
In this context, Toirac issues a clear warning about the risk of a new social explosion: "An escalation of protests that leads to a manifestation similar to the events of July 11th will put the nomenklatura in the dilemma of 'giving the order' under the scrutiny of the U.S. government, which is also facing pressures to act."
The closing of the text is directed at the regime's security forces: "Be careful with the decisions that are made. Watch out for the reactions. They are walking around with a matchbox in an explosives warehouse and the temperature is high."
And his final message is to the police and repressors: "The one who is shouting is your neighbor, your friend, your family member. They are not a mercenary worm selling out their country. Look at their stomach and arms."
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