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The Cuban actor Luis Alberto García Novoa reported this Sunday on Facebook that he has been without electricity or water for 34 consecutive hours in his home, while his daughters sleep on the floor, exposed to mosquitoes and gnats, unable to drink cold water.
"34 hours straight without electricity and water. My girls continue to sleep on the floor for the umpteenth time, eaten alive by mosquitoes and midges, and without drinking cold water. Advice: Don’t make it so easy to not be revolutionary," wrote the well-known performer, in what constitutes the most politically charged denunciation in a long series of criticisms of the regime.
The final phrase is not coincidental: it suggests that the government itself, with its inability to guarantee basic services, is creating dissent among those who were previously loyal to it.
This new complaint comes just 11 days after García warned the regime that he would not remain silent in the face of blackouts, when he recounted 48 hours without electricity or water due to a malfunction of the transformer in his building in the Playa municipality, Havana.
Since then, the actor has continued to document the deterioration: on July 1, he published a technical analysis on how prolonged power outages are destroying the country's electrical transformers, stating that "sise puede" cannot stand against common sense.
The next day alerted about the rise in crime and criticized the Ministry of the Interior for prioritizing political repression over the fight against common crime.
The situation described by García is not an isolated case, but rather a reflection of an unprecedented national electrical collapse: in July, Cuba reports a deficit of between 2,050 and 2,206 MW, with a availability of only 944 to 1,100 MW against a demand of 3,200 MW.
Once thermoelectric units are simultaneously out of service, and the Antonio Guiteras power plant - the largest in the country - has accumulated 17 breakdowns so far this year, with its latest outage recorded on Friday.
The consequences are devastating for the population: in Matanzas, power outages have lasted up to 87 consecutive hours; in Havana, blackouts exceed 30 consecutive hours; on the Isle of Youth, residents receive barely two hours of electricity a day.
The lack of electricity also hinders the operation of water pumps, forcing people to store water in containers and creating conditions conducive to the proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, increasing the risk of dengue in the height of summer.
The Minister of Energy, Vicente de la O Levy, admitted that Cuba operated without fuel reserves between December 2025 and May of this year, while independent experts estimate that restoring the electrical system would require between 8 billion and 10 billion dollars, a sum that the regime neither has nor has prospects of obtaining.
García, with over four decades of experience in film, theater, and television, lives in Cuba and personally endures the conditions he denounces.
It has become one of the most visible references of Cuban cultural dissent and has repeatedly stated that its presence on the Island does not imply silence or complicity.
On June 22, he had already directly questioned the regime: «Do you have anything planned that would make our lives a little less miserable for July and August? And for the rest of our days?»
The government's response, until this Sunday, has been silence and another 34 hours of darkness.
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