The Villa Clara Electric Company announced on its page that Rubén Campos, the general director of the Electric Union (UNE), visited the Villa Clara contingent Ernesto Che Guevara, which is working at the Cosculluela supply source, operated by the Aguas de La Habana company, in the Boyeros municipality of the capital.
According to the state entity, Campos toured the area where the team of workers from Villa Clara is performing maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation work on electrical lines and equipment.
The executive spoke with the linemen about working conditions and safety measures, and emphasized that "the life of the crew comes first."
The publication, which had a laudatory tone, sparked a wave of ironic comments and complaints from Cubans who have been without electricity for days.
The response from internet users was immediate and resolute. "That's why circuit 132 has power," wrote a user sarcastically, implying that the director's visit only benefits specific areas while the rest of the province remains in the dark.
The vast majority of the criticisms came from residents of Villa Clara. While their workers are sent to provide service in the capital, the province accumulates hundreds of unresolved outages and a population that has been surviving for months with only a few hours of electricity a 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 over 200 MW of deficit every day?"
From Camajuaní, a Cuban summarized the situation with sarcasm: "They schedule one hour every two days; that's real progress."
The complaints piled up municipality by municipality. A user from Remedios warned, “When will they bring the broken transformer to Remedios? We haven't had electricity for 5 days now.” From Calabazar de Sagua, another person complained, “We haven't had electricity since the day before yesterday, and when it comes on, it doesn’t last more than 2 hours.” A neighbor from circuit 169, next to the leather salting plant, noted, “We’ve been without electricity for over 30 hours because of a power surge from a little horse.”
A user from circuit 31 reported that the company only restores service at night, leaving families unable to cook during the day: “The residents of that area spend the day coming up with ways to prepare lunch and dinner so that the children can be fed.” He asked, “Why don’t they divide it half during the day and the rest at 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 poles and cables are hardly used?" wrote one internet user. Another added, "And Villa Clara has a truck full of repairs to be made; streetlamp lights but darkness at home."
A user requested that the director extend his tour: "We need you to take a walk around San Juan de los Yeras." Several others described the official post as unfounded propaganda: "The kings of propaganda, you all don't realize that this no longer works, that there is a community that is struggling deeply," wrote one user. Another was more direct: "Liars, that's what you are."
Also, Díaz-Canel visited the Cosculluela water supply facility on Tuesday, where the government is attempting to restore a facility that has been in operation for over sixty years amid the severe water crisis affecting Havana.
His visit and that of the general director of the UNE come as the deadline set by the regime to demonstrate results of its strategy approaches: the end of September, after months of blackouts, breakdowns, 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 in the western system of the capital. Its 10 wells provide more than 33% of the water intended primarily for Playa and Marianao.
The facility has been in operation for more than 60 years without a comprehensive rehabilitation, highlighting the deterioration of infrastructure that is essential for the city's supply.
While the regime published photos of officials touring projects, Villa Clara recorded191 MW of impact due to generation deficit, with circuits in Remedios out of service precisely because of a damaged transformer, which corresponds with the complaints raised 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 up to 142 circuits out of service and a prior deficit of 204 MW.
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