A resident of Manatí, Las Tunas, posted a video on Facebook in which she reports over 22 consecutive hours without electricity and warns that the situation can no longer be tolerated. The clip, signed by Lili Romero, surpassed 30,000 views.
"More than 22 hours without power, and now it's just a back-and-forth. In conclusion, we're caught in this endless cycle; we haven't had electricity for even half an hour. They're ruining the equipment. How much longer will this last, Manatí?" he complains.
Romero explains that, following the prolonged outage, the service transitioned to what is commonly referred to as a "cut and replace" situation— a popular term to describe intermittent power outages—without the electricity stabilizing even for half an hour. He directly holds the local electric company responsible: "What are the people at the electric company doing? They're just patching up lines and transformers."
The woman points out that the excuses from the organization constantly change without any solutions being provided. "It's due to campaigns: when it’s not because the lines are faulty, they’re overloaded; now they distribute by circuit and that doesn't work either," she notes.
The complaint also targets the cost of the service. "We have to keep enduring an expensive service that we pay for but doesn’t provide the fullness, not even on a Sunday, when we have to do laundry, when we have to make do with things, the children going to school, the working mothers."
And it concludes with a warning: "This cannot be tolerated any longer, sir. We will have to take action."
Another resident of Manatí detailed the situation in the municipality in the comments: "According to them, they don't have oil to send for the transformer to Las Tunas, and they also don't have a crane, they say, to keep us quiet, but they are really inconsiderate and showing a lack of respect towards the people of Manatí."
Dozens of internet users expressed their outrage. "This has completely gone out of control, no one cares, what madness," wrote a woman. Another stated, "They are slowly annihilating us." A man was more direct: "The truth is, no one cares... We need to unite and get rid of them all at once."
Several people pointed to the inequality between the power elite and the general population. "Take a little trip to Siboney and to where the high-ranking officials of the misgovernment live... there you will see how they enjoy their air conditioning and all the electrical services; they don’t experience power outages and their refrigerators are running!" wrote a woman.
From Havana, another internet user confirmed that the crisis is not exclusive to the east: "Here, we have 50 to 60 hours without electricity, and even when it comes back on, it’s a constant on and off."
At the beginning of September, the Electric Company of Las Tunas reported 78 damaged transformers in the province.
The video by Romero adds to a multitude of similar reports in a year marked by blackouts affecting over 70% of the national territory simultaneously, seven complete collapses of the National Electric System, and a generation deficit that reached a historic peak of 2,341 MW in July.
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