The Cuban comedian Ulises Toirac erupted this Tuesday against those responsible for the blackouts after reporting that his circuit in Havana had been without electricity since Saturday, with brief restorations that in some cases lasted even less than ten minutes.
"Yes. I am extremely upset," Toirac began in a post made this Tuesday on Facebook, where he stated that he was trying to express himself fairly despite his accumulated indignation.
According to reports, his circuit, identified as 1243, lost electrical service shortly after noon on Saturday.
During the following morning, the power returned three times, but none of those periods lasted more than 20 minutes.
For the comedian, those brief recoveries ended up causing more discomfort than relief.
Furthermore, he explained that the successive interruptions prevented him from sleeping and did not actually resolve the lack of electricity.
The situation repeated itself this Tuesday. "They restored power just a few minutes ago and it didn't even last 10," he wrote, referring to a new restoration that, according to his account, lasted less than ten minutes.
It was then that Toirac launched one of his harshest criticisms to date against those in charge of the electric service.
After a tirade filled with insults directed at those in charge and the entire chain of command, including the president, he summarized his assessment of what had happened with a powerful phrase:
"It's not just incompetence and bad faith. It's a crime," he emphasized.
Toirac also questioned what he sees as an unequal distribution of power outages.
According to what was stated, during those same two days other circuits would have maintained a behavior closer to normal and even some would have experienced significantly fewer interruptions.
Based on that comparison, the comedian said that the situation reinforced his suspicions about possible irregularities in the distribution of electricity service and stated that it made him "confirm the prevailing corruption."
Is that clear enough?, he concluded.
The new release adds to the artist's ongoing critiques of the handling of the Cuban energy crisis.
In July, Toirac stated that the "disaster" in Cuba's electricity system was predictable after decades of misguided economic and financial decisions, although he also acknowledged that the U.S. measures against the island have an impact on the energy sector.
Months earlier, he had been even more explicit about the internal causes of the decline.
In March, he attributed the system collapse to “30 years of discrepancies due to poor investment policies (and not due to the blockade)”, highlighting the aging of power plants, the lack of fuel, and the accumulated deficiencies in the infrastructure.
The protest by Toirac takes place precisely during another critical day for the National Electric Power System.
La Unión Eléctrica forecasted an impact of up to 2,310 MW this Tuesday during peak hours, with only 1,020 MW available against a projected demand of 3,300 MW.
The previous day was marked by a generation deficit throughout the 24 hours, and power outages continued throughout the night.
The maximum impact on Monday reached 2,323 MW, one of the most severe scenarios in the current energy crisis.
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