MIAMI, United States. — On World Energy Saving Day, it is worth remembering the different moments in which the island’s regime has called on Cubans to rationalize the few energy resources that, in theory, it has had in recent decades.
Although the Castroist staff has enjoyed a lifetime in the culture of waste, state propaganda has not skimped on advertisements and campaigns to convey to the people the need for savings.
This is how the Electricity Saving Program in Cuba (PAEC) emerged in 1997, whose objective was for Cubans to reduce energy consumption with measures such as “turning off the lights that were not being used”, “using fluorescent lamps and reducing maximum use of incandescent light bulbs”, “use the washing machine once a week outside of peak hours”, among others.
At the end of the 1990s, the massive blackouts began to decrease, especially with the irruption in the political scene of the Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chávez, a patron of Castroism for more than a decade.
Years later, in 2006, came the famous energy revolutionan initiative of the boss Fidel Castro of which only memories are preserved.
From then until now, the Cuban regime has seen how the country’s energy infrastructure ages and generation continues to be carried out by the same thermoelectric plants as always. In that sense, 2022 was the year of the crash, with blackouts reaching almost as alarming points as during the so-called Special Period.
Last July, the Cuban authorities reactivated the calls click patrolsled by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), to control energy consumption in neighborhoods and neighbourhoods.
In recent months, an initiative of the authorities known as solidarity blackouts: it consists of the areas least affected by the lack of electricity generation “delivering” megawatts to the localities with the worst service. The never seen.
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