The Villa Clara Electric Company reported on its page that Rubén Campos, General Director of the Electric Union (UNE), visited the Villa Clara contingent Ernesto Che Guevara, which is working at the Cosculluela supply source of the Aguas de La Habana company, in the Boyeros municipality of the capital.
According to the state entity, Campos toured the area where the brigade of workers from Villa Clara is carrying out maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation work on electrical lines and equipment.
The executive spoke with the workers about working conditions and safety measures, and emphasized that "the life of the crew comes first."
The publication, with a laudatory tone, triggered an avalanche of ironic comments and complaints from Cubans who have been without electricity for days.
The response from internet users was immediate and forceful. "That's why circuit 132 has power," wrote one user sarcastically, implying that the director's visit only benefits specific areas while the rest of the province remains in the dark.
But the vast majority of the criticisms came from residents in Villa Clara. While their linemen are being sent to provide service in the capital, the province is accumulating hundreds of unresolved outages and a population that has been surviving for months with only a few hours of electricity each day.
A user pointed directly to the magnitude of the problem: "When will Circuit 51 of Sagua la Grande be ready? Why does Villa Clara have a deficit of over 200 MW every day?"
From Camajuaní, a Cuban summed up the situation with sarcasm: "They schedule an hour every two days, now that's progress."
Complaints piled up from municipality to municipality. A user from Remedios pointed out, "When will they bring the broken transformer to Remedios? We haven't had power for 5 days." From Calabazar de Sagua, another person demanded, "We haven't had electricity since the day before yesterday, and when it does come on, it lasts less than 2 hours." A resident of circuit 169, located next to the leather salting facility, reported "more than 30 hours without power due to the tripping of a circuit."
A user from Circuit 31 reported that the company only restores service at night, leaving families unable to cook during the day: "Residents of that area spend the day trying to figure out how to prepare lunch and dinner so that the children can eat." And they asked, "Why don’t they split it half for the day and the rest for the night?"
Others directly questioned the usefulness of the projects that the regime boasts about: "What's the point of all this infrastructure improvement if the posts and cables are barely used?" wrote one internet user. Another added, "And Villa Clara has a breakdown truck full of issues to fix; streetlight bright, home in darkness."
A user requested that the director extend his visit: "We need you to take a tour of San Juan de los Yeras." Several others described the official post as unfounded propaganda: "The kings of propaganda, you don’t realize that this no longer works, that there’s a community that is suffering terribly," wrote one user. Another was more direct: "Liars is what you are."
Also, Díaz-Canel toured the Cosculluela water supply source on Tuesday, where the government is working to restore a facility that has been in operation for more than six decades amid the severe water crisis affecting Havana.
Both visits took place as the deadline set by the regime to show results of its strategy approaches: the end of September, after months of blackouts, breaks, leaks, and pumping failures that have left thousands of Havana residents with irregular service or without water for days.
According to the official Canal Caribe, Cosculluela is the second most important source of the western system of the capital. Its 10 wells provide more than 33% of the water primarily intended for Playa and Marianao.
The facility has been in operation for over 60 years without a comprehensive rehabilitation, highlighting the deterioration of essential infrastructure for the city's supply.
While the regime was publishing photos of executives touring projects, Villa Clara recorded 191 MW of impact due to generation deficit, with circuits in Remedios out of service precisely because of a damaged transformer, which coincides with the complaints made in the comments.
Just four days earlier, Cuba experienced its eighth total collapse of the National Electric System in 2026, from which Villa Clara took days to partially recover, with as many as 142 circuits out of service and a prior deficit of 204 MW.
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