Residents of N Street in Vedado, Havana, staged a pot-banging protest this Sunday after going more than 24 hours without electricity, according to a report on social media by Cuban journalist Mag Jorge Castro.
"Protest now in Vedado. Pot banging on N Street. More than 24 hours without electricity," Castro wrote on X.
The protest occurs amid a wave of discontent shaking the Plaza de la Revolución municipality this weekend.
That same Sunday, residents of El Fanguito —also in Plaza de la Revolución and just a few meters from Vedado— took to the streets once again for the second time in a month, with about fifty people, mostly women, in front of a large deployment of police and special forces that cordoned off part of the area.
The immediate precursor to these protests in El Fanguito was on July 30, when its residents blocked Avenida 23 after more than 48 hours without electricity, water, or gas.
The day after that demonstration, State Security arrested two mothers linked to the protest, a retaliation that did not succeed in suppressing the discontent.
Also this Sunday, residents of Lawton reported blackouts lasting nearly 48 hours in the A465 circuit, which covers the area between 8th and 16th streets and receives supply from the Apolo substation in Arroyo Naranjo.
The pot-banging protest on N Street is not an isolated incident: Vedado has experienced similar protests almost every month since March 2026, with documented episodes on March 6, 15, 18, 22, and 23; April 17; May 13; June 3 and 24; and on July 2, 12, and July 17, when residents took to the streets after more than 30 hours without electricity.
The background of all these protests is a structural electrical crisis that the regime has been unable to resolve.
This Sunday, the Electric Union reported a availability of just 1,022 MW against a generation deficit of 1,805 MW in the National Electric System.
During August, Cuba experienced at least seven total collapses of its electrical system so far in 2026, including two in less than 48 hours on the 2nd and 3rd of August, with peak deficits reaching 2,411 MW.
In some rural areas, power outages exceeded 72 and even 87 consecutive hours, while the regime attributes the crisis to the U.S. embargo, and independent media point to the obsolescence and mismanagement of the energy system as the main causes.
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