VILLA CLARA, Cuba. — After more than 24 uninterrupted hours without electricity, Frank Yera, a Santa Clara self-employed owner of a paladar in the Capiro district, decided to distribute among the neighbors four buckets of ice cream that he had bought a few days ago to sell in his establishment.
“They were melting and that Creole ice cream is nothing more than foam. I had no salvation, “explains the boy who calculates to have lost more than five thousand pesos in the failed investment.
“People have had to eat everything they had in the refrigerators. Everything,” she stresses. “Those of us who had cafeteria businesses like me have had to sell things at almost the same price that we bought them. The loss has been great and it is not known how long it will be.
A note posted on the Facebook page of the Villa Clara Electric Company indicates that so far “the service of the micro-island has been restored”, incorporating circuits as part of 4, Gran Panel and 169 of Santa Clara.
“Work is being done on the Hanabanilla hydroelectric plant, which has a group of deficiencies that allow more circuits to be energized. Microsystems are very vulnerable to any event, hence the instability. The service is guaranteed to the hospitals except the oncology hospital and the Cardiocenter, which are now maintained with generator sets,” the statement specifies.
Reports from several users in the institution’s own profile show that some circuits in the main city have received electricity for three or four hours and that others have been completely turned off for more than 36.
The center of Santa Clara itself has been without service since last night, but the rural areas of the province are in a worse situation, to which the fluid has not reached since the general blackout on Tuesday afternoon.
“All refrigerated groceries were forced to eat. And now that? How to spend the days to come? Millions without fluid and thousands without gas”, Robustiano López, from Villa Clara, commented in a company post.
“With the work that it takes to buy food because of how expensive it is and that everything has to be done in one day, this is the worst thing that has happened to Cuba,” posted another user identified as Diana González.
In addition to the lack of electricity, Cuban families face a shortage of fuel for cooking and drinking water, since a large part of the multi-family buildings pump it directly to the elevated tanks through a turbine.
“Apart from the current, the food is spoiling, because to finish screwing ourselves up we don’t have water either. They didn’t even give bread yesterday for the children. Even when. Answers is what we need”, published the Internet user Ana Pacheco.
“Here in Caibarién we have been without power since Tuesday, what abuse, the meals spoiling, the children unable to sleep and the phones without charge, how long are you going to do this?” lamented Niurbys Broche Lara from Villa Clara.
One last notethe Electricity Company of the province specifies that “unit 6 of the CTE Nuevitas is in the process of starting up, which will allow increasing service coverage in Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba” and that “in addition, it will allow progress towards the central region of the country”, although the time that the maneuver could take is not specified.
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