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 provision in Cuba, a situation she describes as a silent extermination of the population.
"They turn on the water, turn off the lights. They turn on the lights, but not the water. After we spend almost 20-some hours without electricity, they turn it on at 10 at night," says Yaraidi in the clip, which has gathered nearly 27,000 views, over 1,300 likes, and 203 comments.
The woman describes the physical and emotional exhaustion of managing a household without basic services: she has been sleeping on the floor for a week due to the heat, unable to rest because the water arrives at impossible times, often in the early morning.
"You have no mother, you have no aunt. Can’t you see that you are destroying Cuban women, that you are systematically obliterating us?" she directly confronts those responsible for the hydraulic and electrical service.
The most powerful phrase in the video encapsulates the accumulated despair: "If we don't stand up to this, they will exterminate us like the dinosaurs, darling."
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 get water up without an electric motor, which leaves them completely without supplies during blackouts.
Their claim is clear: "At 7 PM, we will turn on the lights and water, so everyone can cook." They add, "These marathons, as if we were in military service, are crazy; they need to get organized."
Yaraidi's testimony is not an isolated case. Throughout 2026, dozens of Cuban women have published similar complaints on social media.
Sisy Aguilera spoke about "genocide" on July 30; Yai Savón reported four days without power and 15 days without water in La Lisa and stated, "they are killing us slowly"; 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.
The pattern described by Yaraidi has a structural explanation: 87% of Cuban aqueducts operate with electric pumps, so each blackout automatically disrupts the water supply.
This is how the vicious cycle exhausts the population: when the electricity comes on, the pumps start working, but it takes hours for the water to arrive; when the water finally comes, there may no longer be electricity to cook.
In Havana, the number of people affected by the lack of water soared from over 200,000 in April to more than 500,000 in July 2026. At the national level, 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 fueling this water collapse reached one of its worst moments of the year this week: blackouts affected up to 70% of the country simultaneously during peak hours, with outages lasting up to 20 hours a day in the capital, while the generation deficit exceeded 2,400 MW.
"They have us backed into a corner. We have to live in checkmate, like you do, full-time," Yaraidi concludes, encapsulating in one sentence what millions of Cubans face every day.
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