The Cuban comedian Reuel Remedios, known for his character "Lindoro Incapaz," posted a video on Facebook in which he shares, with his usual blend of indignation and sarcasm, how workers from the Electric Company showed up at his home with a disconnection notice for not paying the bill from the previous day.
The problem, of course, has its irony: the reason Lindoro hadn’t paid was exactly the same as the one that left him without electricity.
"You have to be thick-skinned, man," the comedian remarked. He then recounted what he told the efficient "line workers": "Look... if here for three days they give us one hour of electricity, two hours, today it was on for just 10 minutes, and it’s been reported... as if we had electricity, and then a truck came 10 minutes after we got power, they dropped something at the pole and left us without electricity [...] and they say we have power all day... 24 hours."
The Kafkaesque logic of the situation is flawless: without electricity, there is no internet; without internet, Transfermóvil does not work —the app that the system itself mandates for paying the electricity bill— and without Transfermóvil, there’s no way to settle the debt. "When there's no power here, we live in the jungle; there’s no connection, no signal, no landline," summarized Lindoro, before launching the definitive argument to the worker who intended to carry out the disconnection: "We pay this by transfer; if we haven’t paid you, it’s your own fault."
What irritated the comedian the most was not the visit itself, but the selective efficiency exhibited by the entity: "For that, they are efficient... Wow! What an efficient situation! Coming to cut off my power because I went over a day, because I haven't paid, because they haven't given me electricity to have a connection. How is that understood, guys?". The phrase that titled the video says it all: "This is just too much."
The incident is not an isolated case. In June 2026, a Cuban woman reported that workers from the Electric Company went to disconnect her service over a debt of just five Cuban pesos, despite the fact that she had already paid through Transfermóvil. On October 5th, ETECSA confirmed that the energy issues simultaneously affected both Transfermóvil and the Nauta service, leaving thousands of Cubans unable to make digital payments.
The context in which all this occurs is that of a historic energy crisis: this Friday, the Unión Eléctrica reported an available generation of only 740 MW against a demand of 2,900 MW, with a projected deficit of 2,160 MW. To make matters worse, unit 1 of the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna thermoelectric plant was taken out of service after a fire.
In that scenario, the comments under Lindoro's video reflected a widespread sense of frustration: several users pointed out that they had experienced similar situations, caught in the same vicious cycle of being unable to pay because they have no electricity, and having no electricity because, supposedly, they haven't paid.
"Because I don't have electricity, I don't have a connection, I can't pay you. I'm also paying you for a service that you're not providing. You're coming to cut off my electricity because I haven't paid for a service that you've given me of very poor quality," summarized Lindoro, with a clarity that no official report has been able to match.
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