Havana/The fluctuations of electricity do not give truce to the refrigerators where the ice cream of Coppelia is saved. From a blackout in blackout, between faces and closures, a chocolate ball can become a smoothie to beaten in a few minutes. Without current and in the tropics, where it will no longer cool up until the end of the year, the “Cathedral” Habanera del Iceado is not worth or chapel.
Even so, there is a tail in front of the emblematic blue facade. “They will open,” says an enthusiastic to which the 1,810 megawatts (MW) of deficit announced today by the electric union have not removed hope. Indeed, at 2:00 pm the doors of Coppelia open for an eager to taste a sip – with 31 ° there is no other consistency – of ice cream.
Joy will last little. The most notified in the tail, who handle the cumbersome calendar of cuts, know that Coppelia will lose the light at 3:00 in the afternoon. The time they “killed Lola”, according to the pessimistic saying, will be the same in which the possibility of cooling the product that gave fame to one of the most visited sites of El Vedado will be lost.
The most notified in the tail, who handle the Corte Calendar, know that Coppelia will lose the light at 3:00 in the afternoon
Apart from the energy situation, Coppelia suffers its own viacrucis. Last week, a few days after his laborious reopening, he had plunged himself into the mediocrity of which, supposedly, he was going to save the repair. Now, together with the price increase and the depleted offer, the Havana will also have to suffer multiple disappointments before a dessert that comes in any form and temperature less in the appropriate ones.
After a funeral January for the National Electrical System (SEN), and after a year of LEAVERSthis month the lack of electricity triggered bottom. Without too much alarm by the authorities, which have normalized the increasingly abusive blackout cycles, a 1970 MW deficit was estimated.
The figure, higher than the one experienced last October when Sen collapsed, presaged a new total blackout that is still a threat this Thursday. In practice, cities like Cienfuegos, Cárdenas and Matanzas live their own turningof more than 24 hours and after a similar day, yesterday.
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“I am on strike and I will not go to work today,” he told 14ymedio A Cienfueguera teacher of Pre -University who has been impossible to plan their classes and perform several domestic tasks. “I haven’t even dressed: if they don’t put the light I don’t come out of my house.”
The latitude does not matter, when the blackout arrives, it brings out the total crudeness with which Cubans perceive their situation. In a barber again, in the capital, the current left leaving several skulls half peel. “When will these go to the plane?” It was the question that the present chanted.
These They are the leaders, whose erratic management always pays – and every day – “those below.” Without flinching, forced to create strategies against electric confusion, barbers took rechargeable lamps and peeling machines with loaded batteries. “Prepared and alerts,” joked one of the workers, parodying the motto of the Civil Defense against the cyclones.
The blackout interrupts or paralyzes everyday life in Cuba. In addition to economic consequences, energy instability has an important human balance: frustration, depression and nerve crisses leave the brain of Cubans as melted as the ice cream that the Coppelia Habanero serves Thursday.
