Residents of circuit 2073 in La Lisa, Havana, reported in a video posted on Facebook that someone is deliberately cutting off their electricity supply to sell power to third parties, leaving them without service for hours.
The images, shared by Marcia Pérez Borrego and recorded in the San Agustín area, Arroyo Arenas, show women pointing out how electricity disappears from their circuit and suspiciously reappears in another sector.
"That's a joke, what those other people are selling is true, it's true that they're selling electricity, it's a logical thing, why are they taking it away?" asks one of the neighbors in front of the camera.
Another woman exclaims indignantly, "We have our rights, just like everyone else."
The recording is not an isolated incident. In mid-July, Elizabeth González Aznar demanded an investigation into an alleged illegal diversion of electricity in the same municipality, pointing out that circuits 2073 and 2075 received only an hour of service per day, while circuit A1223 enjoyed between six to eight continuous hours.
González Aznar documented that the circuit 2073 was energized at 11:50 in the morning and went down exactly one hour later; by four in the afternoon, the helpline number 18888 still had not provided an explanation for the "automatic trip."
Neither the Municipal Party, nor the Municipal Assembly, nor the local electricity company responded to your complaint.
The pattern is repeated in other municipalities. In July, residents of Calabazar, in Boyeros, caught two workers from the Unión Eléctrica allegedly selling electricity illegally to private businesses and mipymes while the community endured prolonged blackouts.
The Electric Union (UNE) acknowledged the incident as an "isolated act of corruption" and promised measures.
The official Roberto Morales Ojeda publicly acknowledged the existence of these behaviors on July 22, although he downplayed them by stating that "four or five" individuals tarnished the efforts of the majority.
La Lisa has been one of the epicenters of citizen protests related to the electricity crisis. In early July, residents gathered in front of the local PCC headquarters after more than 50 consecutive hours without electricity, chanting slogans and demanding water, food, power, and freedom.
In January, residents of El Cano also took to the streets at night to protest several days without service; following the demonstration, the supply was temporarily restored.
This Saturday, the Electric Company of Havana reported the restoration of service in areas of La Lisa after repairing a fault caused by a damaged transformer in Coronela, although the stability of the supply remains precarious throughout the municipality.
The backdrop is an unprecedented national electric crisis: so far in 2026, Cuba has suffered at least six widespread outages of its electrical system, with a generation deficit reaching 2,100 MW against a demand of 3,200 MW, and blackouts in Havana exceeding 22 hours a day.
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