A Cuban mother identified as Yindra Morales published a message of complaint on Facebook this Wednesday that summarizes the exhaustion of thousands of families on the island: at 9:45 PM, her circuit in El Mamey, the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, Havana, was still without electricity despite the promised time being nine o'clock.
"Where is the electricity? Because here in this circuit, it was supposed to arrive at 9:00, and we still have no power. It’s already 9:45 PM, and nothing is shining," wrote Morales on his Facebook profile, asking his contacts to share the situation of the PG980 circuit.
In her post, the woman pointed directly to the impact that the outages have on the most vulnerable: "A tough start to the week for the children going to school and for those of us who work, another dawn without electricity, mosquitoes biting us and no sleep."
Morales' description depicts a night of total darkness, with a small lamp about to run out, mosquitoes, and a body that cannot recover in order to face the next day's challenges.
"The body cannot rest like this. This just isn't possible, for God's sake. How much wickedness, cruelty, it is inhumane, immoral," he wrote.
Arroyo Naranjo is one of the municipalities in Havana with the highest accumulation of power outages so far in September. According to the power outage map of Arroyo Naranjo, the PG940 circuit in that area recorded 29 hours and 47 minutes of outages on September 5, and more than 14 hours on the same Wednesday. The PG980 circuit, where Morales lives, was among those affected in Havana on September 11 due to a generation deficit.
The testimony of this mother is not an isolated case. On September 2, another Cuban mother declared that she would not send her children to school while the children were unable to sleep or rest. A day later, a third mother showed her son sleeping on the floor at the time he was supposed to rest and the power was cut off.
In May, Zea Gisselle reported that her son was awake at two in the morning due to the heat and mosquitoes, and that week she could only send him to school for two days. In July, another woman from Havana described receiving electricity only between three and seven in the morning, which forced her to carry out the domestic marathon in the middle of sleep hours.
Cuba began the 2026 school year amid massive blackouts, with an availability of just 1,020 MW compared to a demand of 3,300 MW on the first day of classes, as reported by the Electric Union. This deficit left up to 70% of the island without power simultaneously, according to Infobae.
The Electric Union warned in August that power outages could worsen between September and December due to several thermal units being under maintenance or out of service, a outlook that does not promise relief for families like that of Yindra Morales.
"We need karma to arrive now. Look: total darkness, my little lamp is running out already," the mother concluded in her post.
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