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The Cuban actor Luis Alberto García Novoa criticized the authorities of the regime this Wednesday in a message posted on his Facebook profile, where he ironically referred to them as "babies up there" and accused them of merely seeking to cling to the power they hold and their privileges for 62,000 millennia.
The text, published shortly after the third total collapse of the electrical system in 2026, starkly describes the situation that millions of Cubans are facing: prolonged blackouts, hot water for drinking, and lost meals due to the lack of electricity.
"We breathe or we suffocate even in non-prioritized and mistreated electrical circuits, HISTERICUS CUBENSIS, with gasps and in prolonged darkness for too long. A time so long that it is counterrevolutionary and extreme, just so you know," wrote the actor.
García directly questioned the regime's willingness to resolve the crisis: "Would they have the damn kindness to remember us? Is it in their power to provide water to the lighting domino in an equitable manner?"
In one of the most striking passages of his message, the actor pointed out that the authorities have lost all credibility regarding their promises: "They have easily earned my disrespect and my lack of faith in all their 'BULL' because their seams and cracks are visible."
García also criticized the University of the Party "Ñico López," the main institution for training political cadres of the Communist Party of Cuba, with philosophical irony: "No philosopher has ever dared to assert that a social system would be eternal. But Ñico López assured them that it would."
The inventory of losses described by the speaker is devastating: "I have ROTTEN and/or MISSING, the trust in their management; also the meals, breakfasts, snacks, and dinners for my family, faith, hope, and charity. Hot water to drink and the air from fans or cardboard. Boiling with hatred. WE DO NOT DESERVE THEM," he concludes in a post that ends with a shout of ¡Viva José Martí! and ¡Viva Cuba!
The message arrives two days after Cuba experienced the seventh total blackout of the National Electric System in the last 18 months, which occurred on Monday when the system completely collapsed at 12:17 PM with a deficit of over 2,200 MW against a demand of 3,100 MW.
Almost 24 hours after that blackout, Havana had only restored power to 46% of the city, while in Matanzas the outages lasted for 87 consecutive hours and in the Isle of Youth residents receive barely two hours of electricity a day.
García has been one of the most vocal public figures regarding the energy crisis for months. On Sunday, he reported 34 consecutive hours without electricity or water in his home, with his daughters sleeping on the floor, exposed to mosquitoes. On June 25, he had warned: “I will not be silent. Know this”, after 48 hours without light or water due to a malfunction in the transformer of his building in the Playa municipality of Havana.
On June 10, in an equally furious tone, García referred to the authorities as "mandantes" and accused them of having abandoned the people "in the darkness of night" with a single directive: "Screw you!"
The regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel, meanwhile, has responded to the crisis by praising the workers in the electricity sector and attributing the collapse to the U.S. embargo, without taking any responsibility for decades of disinvestment and neglect of the energy system.
The actor concluded his message on Wednesday with the same words he often uses to end his most impassioned statements: "Long live José Martí! Long live Cuba!"
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