A neighbor from Santa Fe, Playa municipality, Havana, has become one of the most widely shared voices on social media after posting a video in which she denounces the conditions in which thousands of Cuban families live, without water, without electricity, and facing increasing difficulties in obtaining food.
The video, published on July 27 by Vilma Guerra on Facebook, has garnered over 85,000 views and has received thousands of supportive reactions and comments from users across various provinces of the country.
Recorded in her home, located between 314 and 316 streets, the woman explains that the situation has reached a breaking point.
"I don't usually talk on Facebook or anything like that, but this has gone too far. No water, no electricity, no food. How much longer is this going to last?" he expresses at the beginning of the recording.
As the video progresses, her denunciation becomes more vigorous.
"This can't go on any longer. It's too much; this is criminal. We are not camels. We are not camels. No one can endure this any longer," he asserts.
One of the moments that generated the most impact was when he claimed to have lost the fear of the possible consequences of speaking publicly.
"I'm not interested in what happens to me afterwards. It doesn't matter to me. You only die once. If I need to take up the machete, like Antonio Maceo, then I'll take up the machete," he declared.
He also described the impact of the crisis on the youngest.
"The children cannot watch a cartoon on television. The children have no holidays. It's a sad and painful dog’s life that we lead here," he lamented.
At another point in the video, he directly held the Government responsible for the situation the population is facing.
The complaint coincides with a crisis affecting a large part of Havana. During July 2026, more than 500,000 residents of Havana were without regular access to drinking water, a figure significantly higher than the approximately 200,000 affected in April and the 376,055 recorded in May.
The situation worsens because about 87% of the capital's water supply system relies on electric pumping stations, so prolonged blackouts also disrupt the water supply.
Aguas de La Habana acknowledged specific impacts in the higher areas of Santa Fe due to breakdowns in the Cangrejera 1 system and electrical interruptions. In response to the emergency, authorities turned to the deployment of water trucks in some municipalities, while the cost of a private water truck fluctuated between 18,000 and 50,000 Cuban pesos.
The comments on the video indicate that the situation goes beyond the capital. Users from Banes, Marianao, Alamar, Las Tunas, Bejucal, and San Antonio de los Baños reported similar issues, experiencing weeks or even months without a stable water supply.
Hours after posting the video, Vilma Guerra shared another message on Facebook in which she revealed that, in addition to facing a crisis in basic services, she has been waiting for six months for surgery due to a tumor.
"The hospitals have collapsed, there are no medical supplies for my surgery, and the minister has banned operations of that kind. It has all been exhausting, fighting, spending even what I don't have, and all for nothing. I have visited many hospitals in Havana, and the response is always the same: we have to wait. That's why people here are dying," they wrote.
His testimony aligns with the crisis facing the Cuban healthcare system. By May 2026, over 94,000 patients were on waiting lists for surgeries, and tens of thousands of operations had been postponed due to a lack of resources and supplies.
Among the hundreds of comments the post received, one encapsulated the feelings of many Cubans who resonated with the complaint: "If you consider yourself crazy, then we are nine million crazy people."
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