The Cuban broadcaster Laritza Camacho posted on Facebook a reflection in which she turns the regime's propaganda slogan "It's always the 26th" into evidence of its own failure, just before the 73rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada.
Camacho doesn't need many words to dismantle the slogan: "They've repeated it until exhaustion. And what they're telling you is that everything is the same, that nothing changes, and they want everything to continue as it is."
The radio and television presenter in Cuba directly addresses the hypocrisy of the government: while it fills public squares with loudspeakers and slogans, the population suffers the consequences of the collapsed electrical system.
"They have filled the squares, and your megawatts escape through the loudspeakers of every slogan. The thief of the breakers is also shouting that it is always the 26th," writes Camacho, after denouncing the massive theft of circuit breakers and electric meters, a phenomenon that reflects the chaos in the country.
As the energy crisis hits Cuba, the government is preparing for the central event of July 26 in Pinar del Río, a province that has faced more than two years without regular potable water service in several municipalities, electrical outages lasting up to 30 hours, and an outbreak of hepatitis A reported in June.
The regime mobilized a hundred workers to restore the Teatro Milanés in record time for the political event, but did not allocate resources to address the area's water, electricity, or health crisis.
Laritza also dismantles the 176 economic measures approved by the regime in June, which include the opening to small and medium-sized enterprises without a worker limit, the possibility for an individual to own more than one private company, and the authorization of private banking.
For the host, the opening is a façade: "All the measures they take are so that they and their own can entrench themselves in power and luxury."
"Particular means of them. Pull a thread and you find them," he declared.
The reflection comes at a time of peak social tension.
The Cuban Conflict Observatory recorded 107 street protests in June, a historic record, while Cubalex raised the number to 253 protests and 319 repressive events in the same month.
In contrast to those who applaud or await a change that never comes, Camacho delivers a blunt warning: "If you choose to postpone your life thinking that tomorrow is another day, you are wasting your time. The horizon is already far ahead of you. The world is moving at 5G speed, and you have neither a connection, nor resources, nor money to replace what the thieves take from you, nor a damn day that isn’t the 26th."
This is not the first time the broadcaster has confronted the regime with such clarity.
On July 11th, she wrote on the same social network: "I am against the Cuban government because the Cuban government is against Cuba".
The Cuban economy has experienced a decline of between 15% and 23% since 2019-2020, and CEPAL projects an additional drop of 6.5% for this year.
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