Havana/The immediate vicinity of Casino Deportivo, in the Havana municipality of Cerro, were a wolf mouth on Monday night. Dark, but at all silent. The streets like Primelles or Santa Catalina sounded strongly the cacerolazos. “The programming does not comply, people are without sleep,” denounces with this newspaper a neighbor, who says that in recent days they have been a daily blackout hours.
Yesterday, said the electric company of Havana, a “shot” of two lines left the substations of melons and tallapiedra, in addition to the only one Pin Turkish that remains in the capital, the rule, with which the old Havana, Centro Habana and part of San Miguel del Padrón and October ten were left without light. On Tuesday morning, the state company reported that the six blocks of the capital were “affected” and “the programming could not be met.”
According to today’s Electric Union of Cuba (UNE), on Monday, an affectation of 1,798 megawatts (MW) was reached at the time of maximum demand. For this Tuesday it is expected even worse. For that peak time a demand of 3,550 MW is calculated and an availability of 1,780 MW, so that the deficit will be 1,770 MW. The real affectation, however, is estimated at 1,840 MW.
“Now anyone touches a casserole, this is unthinkable a year ago”
Although in the capital they are far from the electric cuts of the provinces – where the blackouts have become 26 hours in recent weeks – their residents begin to get tired. “Now anyone touches a casserole, this is unthinkable a year ago,” says the neighbor of the Casino Deportivo.
The neighborhood, with a wealthy zone image of Havana where families live with the best economic situation, in the past appeared in the classified for homes of homes as an area where “the light does not leave.” However, the energy crisis that plagues the island has also played at the door of the villas with garden and large rooms that abound in its perimeter.
The prison sentences that have occurred arbitrarily for some of those who have gone to protest the energy crisis by sounding casseroles are an effective determination method, but the spirits are increasingly warm. This Monday, despair, mainly due to lack of water but also light, led a group of mothers to Close Monte Street With their children in arms, flying empty cubes.
Police officers tried to dissolve the protest, push and bad words, although moments later, a tank truck appeared in the place, guarded by a patrol, to appease the crowd.
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