A Cuban identified as Yaraidi Rodriguez posted a video on Facebook in which she desperately denounces the lack of coordination between the electricity supply and the drinking water supply in Cuba, a situation she describes as a silent extermination of the population.
"Puts on the water, turns off the light. Turns on the light, doesn't provide the water. After we’ve spent almost 20-something hours without electricity, they turn the light on at 10 PM," Yaraidi says in the clip, which in less than a day accumulated nearly 27,000 views, over 1,300 likes, and 203 comments.
The woman describes the physical and emotional exhaustion of managing a household under those conditions: she has been sleeping on the floor for a week due to the heat, unable to rest because water comes at impossible times, often in the early morning hours.
"You don't have a mother, you don't have an aunt. Can't you see that you are destroying Cuban women, that you are annihilating us en masse?" he directly addresses those responsible.
The most powerful phrase in the video sums up the accumulated desperation: "If we don't stand up to this, they will exterminate us like the dinosaurs, sweetheart."
Yaraidi explains that thanks to a lithium battery with a converter, she can use a fan and pump some water, but she warns that those living on higher floors—second, fifth floor—cannot bring up water without an electric motor, leaving them completely without supplies during blackouts.
His claim is straightforward: "At 7 PM, we will turn on the lights and water, so everyone can cook." He adds, "These marathons, as if we were in military service, are crazy; they need to get coordinated."
Yaraidi's testimony adds to others that throughout 2026 have been shared on social media by other Cuban women with similar allegations.
Sisy Aguilera spoke of "genocide" on July 30; Yai Savón reported four days without electricity and 15 days without water in La Lisa and stated, "they are slowly killing us"; Sady R. Companioni was threatened with arrest after complaining about 15 days without water or electricity while her six-year-old daughter had a fever of 39.5 °C.
What Yaraidi describes has a structural explanation: 87% of Cuban aqueducts operate using electric pumps, so every power outage automatically disrupts the water supply.
This is how the vicious cycle that exhausts the population is created: when the electricity comes on, the pumps start, but it takes hours for the water to arrive; when the water does arrive, there may no longer be electricity to cook.
In Havana, the number of individuals affected by lack of water rose from over 200,000 in April to more than 500,000 in July 2026. Nationally, the regime acknowledged that around 2.7 million Cubans lack regular access to drinking water and nearly 10 million receive it intermittently.
The electrical crisis fuels this water collapse, and no improvement is in sight in the short or medium term. During the current month, blackouts have simultaneously affected nearly 70% of the country during peak hours, with generation deficits exceeding 2,400 MW and outages lasting up to 20 hours a day in several areas of the island.
"They have us worn out. We have to live in checkmate, like you, full-time," concludes Yaraidi, summarizing in one sentence what millions of Cubans face every day.
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