The Cuban broadcaster and actress Laritza Camacho posted on Facebook a reflection that directly addresses the regime's double standards: while millions of Cubans endure power outages lasting more than 24 hours, the power elite seems unaffected and blames the embargo for all the problems.
The text, published a day after the fifth total blackout of the year in Cuba, begins with a distinction that Camacho considers non-negotiable: “The statements from the Minister of Energy and Mines circulating on social media may be false... but the blackouts are real and the sacrifice they are asking from the people is real...”.
In light of the regime's constant excuse (the U.S. embargo) as the cause of the crisis, Laritza poses the question that no one answers: "How does the blockade not affect the lifestyle of the powerful, the free, the negotiators, the daddies and their pampered kids?"
The central proposal of the publication is sarcastic yet heavily laced with denunciation, aiming for both the government and the people to be able to "mock the blockade" on equal terms. "I think they should give the 'boxes' to the people, and then we could all laugh at the blockade," he writes.
And it offers the reverse exchange: "You give us that secret formula and we can teach you how to cook with charcoal in the midst of the blackout." He calls it, with irony, "pure 'revolutionary creativity'."
On Tuesday, July 14, the National Electric System (SEN) collapsed again due to the shutdown of unit 1 at the Felton thermoelectric plant in Holguín, leaving approximately 9.6 million people without electricity. This marks the tenth total blackout in 24 months.
This Wednesday's reflection adds to a series of critical posts that Camacho has maintained for weeks.
On July 11, she stated plainly: "I am against the Cuban government because the Cuban government is against Cuba. Nothing works in my country."
On June 22, questioned the regime's egalitarian discourse with a question that still has no official answer: "Why do those who promote 'sharing poverty equally' become increasingly wealthy?"
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz attributed the blackouts to the embargo and spoke of a possible "genocide," while Díaz-Canel called on July 10 to "better organize the blackouts" without announcing any structural measures to increase generation.
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