“The country split in two: the people condemned to the eternal blackout and the hotels shining like showcases lit for outside those,” denounced a Cuban internet user.
Miami, United States. – The Ministry of Tourism (Mintur) said Wednesday in X that the sector maintains its activity despite the total fall of the national electrical system (SEN). “Given the recent affectation of the National Electrical System, the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba transmits confidence and security to all our visitors. Most of our hotels and tourist services have electric generators and resources necessary to operate normally,” said the portfolio.
The message contrasts with the panorama for the population in the rest of the country, which suffers a total blackout, the fourth in a year, from 9:14 am on Wednesday.
“It is blackmail. While the PCC tells Cubans to resist 20 hours of blackout, the same PCC tells tourists that there are current for them,” He wrote on Facebook Cuban journalist José Raúl Gallego. “There are no generators for hospitals, but for hotels.”
Meanwhile, in the Facebook group Revolico Amancio An anonymous participant He pointed out: “What relief! The tourist can take his very cold mojito under the air conditioning, while a few blocks away the Cuban boils water in a firewood stove to give the patient hot. The country party in two: the town condemned to the eternal blackout and the hotels shining like showcases lit for those outside.”
“This is how Cuban ‘energy sovereignty’: the Cuban turns off and the tourist ignites. Because in this absurd theater, electricity is not a right, it is a privilege with all inclusive,” concluded the same user.
Mintur’s same publication on Facebook Add more than 100 comments that criticize the policy of keeping the hotels connected while the town is in a blackout. “They do not have to say it, we already know that who fucks is the people, tourism is a reality parallel to Cuba,” wrote The Internet user Haydée Leiva Batista. “Class lack of respect for you with the Cuban people, you have just resigned, reguero of corrupt inept,” He added User Yerani Quevedo.
The panorama in Cuba this Wednesday
The Cuban Airports and Airport Services (ECASA) reported – reported –cited by Cubadebate– That “all the airports in the country remain operable thanks to the alternative media”, a measure taken to “guarantee the exit and entry of flights” despite the blackout. The Ministry of Public Health added to 13:50 that “welfare activities with the use of structure groups are guaranteed.”
According to the same medium, the Electric Union (UNE) initiated the restoration of the system from Jaruco Boca Energas and deployed microsystems to supply “vital objectives”.
Lázaro Guerra Hernández, General Director of Electricity of the UNE, explained at 1:36 pm that “the restoration began from the mouth of Jaruco that is already in service.” However, the official stressed the fragility of operations: “In the restoration processes, the systems begin very weakened”, so, “he added,” slowly, for sure not to go back, because if we go back, we lose all the time that we had the energy in that microsystem “, following” the steps that are also established in the procedures. “
Meanwhile, the provinces operate for generation “islands.” The first ones were activated in the Tunas, with about 8 MW initially – and the forecast to raise the load to 13 MW – to support essential services, including health centers. In Granma, the provincial microsystem contributed 20 MW. In Holguin, at 1:26 pm, only 12% of customers had service.
In Havana, the capital company capital reported at 1:06 pm the disconnection of the microsystem, although partial re -energyization advanced from jaruco mouth energy with substations and prioritized circuits earlier.
Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said that the Government has “a well -defined strategy to face this situation” and that it was “doing everything possible and the impossible to restore service.”
On the cause of collapse, the first secretary of the PCC in Matanzas, Mario Sabines Lorenzo, reported on Facebook that “a false sign in automatic caused the exit of CTE Antonio Guiteras”, a problem that “is solved” and with the plant “ready to start starting [cuanto] The energy comes. ”
In parallel, Cubadebate He collected that the experts of the electric company ruled out the immediate use of photovoltaic solar parks in these “islands” due to the absence of accumulation and the instability of microsystems, and recalled that they must first be energized for later synchronization.
