In a meeting with governors, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez analyzed Cuba's energy situation.
According to the review site Presidential website, the president stated that "the blackouts will continue in the coming days."
He insisted that the causes are those already reported: "plant breakdowns, fuel shortages for distributed generation, and the maintenance being performed to ensure we're in a better position for the summer."
In this regard, he stated that "the precision with which we report the scheduling of these blackouts is important."
He also called for a swift response to "any unforeseen situation that may arise, so that people have the ability to maneuver and reorganize their lives."
As is known, there are many complaints on the institutional websites of electric companies about failure to comply with the reported blackout schedules.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stated that "we are convinced that we will always win, even in the worst of situations."
“We have the capacity and we are going to do it,” he added.
This is how a Cuban reacted to his words published on Facebook:
“Mr. President. I am Cuban until I die, and if I have to die for my country, so be it, but first I must say something. Our country must do something urgently. The people are about to explode. It's already too much. There's no food, there's no money. We have problems, and they're serious.”
Along the same lines, another person stated: “Not you, the people have the capacity to win, the workers who, despite spending the entire night without power, without sleeping, killing mosquitoes, in the heat, many without being able to eat, get up early the next day to go to work.”
BLACKOUTS HIT CUBA
Amid the already difficult economic situation, blackouts have reappeared in nightmare mode for Cubans.
Power outages lasting more than 10 hours are reported in many areas. The capital is barely touched.
The Cuban Electric Union has predicted for this Wednesday, service will be affected throughout the day and night.
How are we going to win? Where are the alternatives? I am a Fidelista, but President, please, I can no longer breathe well, my stomach hurts, stress kills, these people are wasting away, there is so much pain after having fought so hard for Cuba's freedom, and as our Fidel said, no one is going to destroy Cuba. If that were to happen, it would be because it would self-destruct, and really, Fidel was not wrong. Well, he had a long vision. You will always be among us, Fidel.
Ordinary Cubans are true heroes, the difficulties they go through are worse than going to die in a war, because their well-being, their needs and human conditions, their dreams, their rights slowly die, even affecting their mental capacity, when a father does not have the money to bring a plate of food or a glass of milk to a small child or an elderly member of the family, and as in the Stone Age without electricity, gas, or air to relieve the heat, or food, medicine, etc., etc. Lord, it's crazy, they must be stubborn and powerless, are they the true heroes now? In the homes of each leader are also without electricity and shortages? From the answer there is the reason for the darkness and misfortune of the beautiful Island, ???? the only thing left for the people is to cry, scream and die tied hand and foot? Should the government not repress more to stay in power, poor Cubans are human beings, besides Cuba belongs to everyone equally, Cuba gave birth to them all ... GOD
Sir, with all due respect to you as president of my country, my country suffers from many things, for example, food, mainly for children, the state of life is expensive and with the salary very few people can have food for their children. I know that my Cuba is strong but the situation is very cautious. Since you have the power, try to make sure that one day everyone in my country can support themselves and that their relatives who live outside of Cuba do not have to support them so that they can eat.
Mr. President, the situation that the country is going through is beyond comprehension. We have been getting worse for two years and we have not achieved any improvement. The people are the ones who suffer, they suffer much more for their children, the young ones. They do not know about the capacity for resistance. The provinces that have the greatest capacity for resistance are the most affected, the most affected by hunger because there is little and what little is distributed very poorly. I am referring to the provinces that are most at risk, they try to keep supplied. While you all devise strategies alone and without any intention of offending, without any result, and you only know how to ask for resistance, it is too stressful not having to give the little ones at home a snack. They ask why they want to see their dolls, they do not understand what is explained to them and they do not know the reason, that is when they cry, tears that I do not know how to console with anything. When they stop, even the elderly are psychologically altered, and they are also left inconsolable because it is like a never-ending story, a story without end. Do not ask for more resistance, please. Find an alternative, but do it now. Don't punish my people any more, because if that weren't enough, it's not the only problem we have. I would like to know who can handle hunger, poorly prepared food, the low cultural level, and the emerging economic situation. And if it were possible, I would ask you to look at the other Latin American countries. Cuba is not alone. I think that people can trade without having to make political agreements. Or do I think that's what the Ecuadorian president was referring to at the CELAC summit when he gave the example of European countries? I don't know if it is.cucWell, even though he was there, he was very confused and he can no longer hide how people live in my country. It will be very difficult to get out of this alone.
We must invest in what is urgent for the people and the issue of energy generation is one of them when we are almost running out of gas cylinders, we can no longer continue like this in the end the money raised by the stores MLC Where does he get into? Selling refrigerators when there's no electricity and some food items only to have them rot after he pays a huge amount for them?
Be careful with the people and the youth, who are a very sensitive generation.
A question: Are there no blackouts in the hotels?
President Dias-Canel, I'm going to tell you what the mambisa Amelia Calzadilla told you in her live broadcast: "If you can't handle the problems of this country, resign, sell it, or give it away to the Chinese, or the Russians, or the Mexicans. But do something now because we Cubans can't take it anymore. In any case, Cuba has always been a neo-colony, first of the Spanish and then of the Americans, and life was better than it is now because at least we lived with dignity and decorum... ahhh, and you aren't putting up with anything, it's the people who are doing it ***.
And I wonder: What role do the solar panels and generators installed across much of the country play?
It's disrespectful to 11 million people who suffer, cry in silence, and don't say what they feel out of fear, for fear of imprisonment and reprisals.
It is very, very sad to know that there are privileges in the issue of blackouts. In the provinces there are too many hours without power, but in the capital only two or three hours. I think Cuba also includes the capital. So they are charging us the hours they should work in Havana, or is it fear of what could happen in Havana?
Mr. President, I want to ask you a question. You and your family own part of Havana. Why do we have to save so that Havana can be lit up? It's unfair to spend entire nights killing mosquitoes and sweating from the heat. Until when, Mr. President, do the people have to endure this injustice? We are human beings.