The Cuban influencer Tere Felipe, residing in Spain and known for systematically replicating the narratives of the Cuban regime, described the journalist and activist Magdiel Jorge Castro as "miserable" this Saturday after a discussion on social media regarding the causes of the electrical crisis on the island.
The trigger was a tweet from Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla in which he attributed the new total disconnection of the National Electric System (SEN) to the "energy siege and the extreme intensification of the U.S. blockade against Cuba."
Castro responded immediately: "This is a miserable falsehood... in 2024, before Trump took office, the SEN collapsed five times. The crisis facing Cuba has a single culprit... and that is the communism you defend."
It was then that Tere Felipe attacked the activist with an argument that reflects the official line of the Communist Party of Cuba: "It's miserable for people like this so-called Mag, a Cuban willing to justify policies that harm 'his own' people, to whitewash Trump's regime."
In her post, the spokesperson tried to support her position with two concrete examples.
The first: the French shipping company CMA CGM suspended its cargo operations to Cuba in mid-May 2026, which would have left containers with essential spare parts for the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant in Matanzas held up in France.
The second: Alstom's energy division was acquired by the American General Electric in 2015, placing the plans and components of the Cuban thermoelectric system built with that technology under the jurisdiction of U.S. laws.
Both situations arose, in part, as a consequence of the Executive Order 14404 signed by Donald Trump on May 1, 2026, which expanded secondary sanctions against foreign companies operating in Cuba's strategic sectors, particularly in the energy sector.
The suspension of CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd affected up to 60% of the island's maritime traffic.
However, Tere Felipe's argument overlooks a critical fact that Castro had already pointed out: the collapses of the SEN began long before those sanctions.
The fourth total blackout of the year occurred on Friday, with a historic deficit of 2,341 MW and outages lasting up to 87 consecutive hours in Matanzas.
The first total collapse of the SEN occurred on October 18, 2024, when a malfunction at the Guiteras Plant resulted in the loss of 1,640 MW, long before Trump returned to the White House.
This is not the first time that Tere Felipe has publicly defended the regime in this debate.
By March 2026, he had already blamed Trump for the blackouts, drawing criticism for downplaying decades of disinvestment and mismanagement by the Cuban government.
This Saturday, it was also reported that "the blockade exists and is cruel and inhumane," recounting the case of doctors at a pediatric hospital in El Cerro who, at six in the morning, ran out of fuel for the generator with five children in therapy.
Magdiel Jorge Castro is a journalist, activist, and Cuban biologist born in Holguín in 1994, now in exile in Spain.
In December 2022, the government of Luis Arce expelled him from Bolivia under the pretext of "disturbing public order" due to his opinions on social media, an expulsion that the Cuban regime celebrated in prime time on national television.
Tere Felipe concluded his publication with a statement that encapsulates the narrative the regime has been repeating for months: "Anyone trying to make believe that these criminal measures only affect the Cuban government or that the energy crisis is the government's fault is concealing an evident reality."
"The people pay the consequences, with more blackouts, more shortages, and an even greater deterioration of their living conditions."
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