Cuba entered this Friday in a new era of shadows while almost the whole area had no electricity. The complete blackout of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) occurred in the morning hours after the Guiteras thermoelectric plant stopped working. “From the side of the world We are prioritizing attention and solutions to these problems the most influential forces in the world,” wrote President Miguel Díaz Canel in X. “There will be no rest until they are restored.” Power outages have become a regular occurrence that has also drawn protests from neighbors. But the complete removal of SEN represented a major challenge for the Government and the Government. According to ‘Granma’, the official organ of the ruling Communist Party, at 3 o’clock in the morning gradual restoration of the system in other parts.
Engineer Lázaro Guerra Hernández, director of electricity at the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MINEM), confirmed that they are working to solve the problem that is causing chaos in a country that has other problems such as. inflation, low wages, shortages and shortages of transport and medicine. Hernández added that the cause of the mega blackout is “under investigation.” The lack of fuel and diesel needed to generate electricity was exacerbated by weather that prevented ships from docking in Matanzas Bay.
Cubans have already felt the fall. Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz He appeared on TV at night with MINEM officials to explain the power crisis. Marrero Cruz admitted in front of the cameras that the situation is very difficult and without a real solution in the short term. The official, one of Díaz-Canel’s trusted men, remembered that The electrical infrastructure has been severely damaged and that the Government is trying to protect the residential sector from being shut down, even at the cost of hindering non-essential economic and public sector activities. After a few hours, his words outweighed the facts. Before the power outages, ‘Granma’ made a desperate request: “it is necessary to cut costs to the extreme, such as encouraging people to work on the telephone, the work of the Power Corporations and to prevent or turn off empty spaces.”
A plant of light
According to the portal ‘El Toque’, the problem of low alcohol consumption is part of “repetitive words” of the authorities who now want to advise the citizens of what seems impossible: to find photovoltaic solar panels that cost between four and five thousand dollars on an island where the minimum wage is 14 dollars. “It involved equipment whose cost would be beyond the reach of most Cubans.”
The problem started long ago the collapse of the European socialist bloc in the ninetiesaccording to experts. In the second decade of this century, some of the old barriers were partially overcome and almost 100% of the population was able to rely on energy. An important question remains unanswered: Cuba is dependent on crude and refined oil which comes from Venezuela. Their problems become the Cuban problem which exacerbates structural insecurity. Díaz-Canel, Marrero Cruz and other officials did not fail instead of a powerful disaster: the sanctions against the United States, which exacerbated the problem. Some experts say, the Government has not been able to go beyond the complaints. It has not even reached agreements on this matter with allied countries such as Russia and China.
According to the portal ‘La Joven Cuba’, Mr. Daniel, the thermoelectric plants are fed with national oil that has a lot of sulfur that makes boilers and cracks in the construction. “This damage makes maintenance more time-consuming and expensive, without the capital or technical expertise to ensure a successful recovery.” Adding to this is the lack of investment, poor management, and the inability to provide lasting solutions.
Repetitive cuts undermine any economic test. The harvest sector is affected as well as the tourist area.
In some analog cases, people reacted by resigning to official information that spread because of rumors. But today, there are about 8 million mobile phones on the island and users inform the authorities of their pain on their X accounts “Leave, steal what is left of the country and get out immediately!”Leave it to the Cuban people who know how to rebuild the country”; “They are a band of thieves, and they are the most unintelligent people Cuba has ever produced,” he said. “To give up, to fail”; “Get out of the Mercedes and get out,” are some of the comments adults face.
