A Cuban father recorded at 2:27 in the morning, during a blackout and with his children sleeping on the floor due to the heat and mosquitoes, a video, which has become one of the most poignant testimonies of the electricity crisis that Cuba is experiencing this summer.
Alfredito Fominaya, a well-known social media content creator, recorded the video without cuts or edits, with the sole condition being that his phone's battery allowed it. The images show his children lying on the floor on sheets, in a modest room with turquoise walls, without electricity in the midst of the hot season.
"Why do I have to resist? For that reason? I’m supposed to resist. For that reason? I’m supposed to keep being a revolutionary, that we have to continue being communists, that we have to endure. For what?" Fominaya asked directly to the camera, challenging the official narrative of the regime that demands the Cuban people endure the crisis.
"This is the summer we are giving to our children. A summer where they have to sleep on the floor, where the heat is overwhelming, the mosquitoes... Is this what we have to fight for?" she added with visible distress.
The Habanero firmly rejected the discourse of resistance that officials and spokespeople of the regime repeat through state media: "Let’s not ask the Cuban people to endure this any longer. What we need is freedom. What we need is for the misery to end."
Fominaya pointed out that faith is the only thing that supports him in the face of the situation: "I can assure you that for a long time, a long time, the hope that sustains me is God. Knowing that God is in control, knowing that God has a different destiny."
The video concludes with a prayer: "Lord, let communism come to an end, let evil come to an end, let so much time of suffering for Cubans come to an end, may God bless Cuba, freedom."
The video by Fominaya adds to a wave of similar testimonies. A Cuban mother showed her sleeping children on the floor with mosquito nets and wrote: "We hold the Guinness record for enduring." On June 22, another father shared a photo of his children sleeping on the porch after more than 24 hours without electricity.
The electrical crisis that Cuba is experiencing this summer is the most severe in decades. Blackouts in Havana last between 20 and 24 hours a day, while in Matanzas, outages of up to 85 consecutive hours were recorded between June 14 and June 17.
On June 17, the generation deficit exceeded 2,080 MW, leaving 69% of the national territory without electricity. That day, 106 distribution plants were out of service due to a lack of fuel.
The human impact is devastating: blackouts have forced entire families to sleep on doorsteps and sidewalks, nearly 100,000 patients have pending surgeries due to a lack of power—among them 5,000 oncology patients—and the government has announced an early school closure between June 15 and June 30.
It is not the first time that Fominaya has gone viral for denouncing the regime. In March 2026, he publicly responded to Silvio Rodríguez after the delivery of an AKM rifle as an act of "cultural resistance," and in May, he published another video questioning the official signature campaign, in which he also denounced threats from State Security.
"what we are experiencing today will not last forever. No more resistance, no more misery, enough already. May God have mercy on the Cuban people," Fominaya wrote as the text for his post, encapsulating the feelings of thousands of Cubans who this summer are dealing with the heat, mosquitoes, and darkness while the regime offers no solutions.
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