MIAMI, United States.- The Cuban journalist living in Miami, Mario Pentón, shared on his social network account Twitter images of a protest in San Francisco de Paula, in Havana, to which the regime sent uniformed men with the aim of controlling the situation.
In the videos, dozens of people are seen sitting on the floor playing pots, while political police agents try to talk.
The protest, which has lasted until the night of this Thursday, September 29, brought together Cubans tired of the government’s lies who ask for freedom and demand that the electricity service be restored.
As a consequence of this and other protests in various parts of Havana on Thursday, the communist government cut off the internet in the country, fearful that other protesters would join throughout Cuba, as happened on July 11, 2021.
The Cubans who have taken to the streets in Havana during this day They ask for the end of the national blackout that has almost the entire country in the dark since last Monday. Hurricane Ian, which hit the province of Pinar del Río, plus a “fault” in the National Electric Power System, has caused electricity to be cut off in almost all provinces.
The state Electric Union (UNE) assured this Thursday that in some points of the capital, as in other areas of the national territory, it has been possible to connect the current, although it did not specify how many of the 11.1 million inhabitants of the country continue without electricity supply.
According to the company, some 370 megawatts (MW) are currently being generated and served, which represents just over 12% of the country’s total demand at the time of peak consumption.
The UNE also said that it has already connected 37% of the subscribers in Havana and is satisfying just over a third of the usual demand in the capital.
Seven of the country’s 14 thermoelectric plants are operational, although not at full capacity. Most of the others are in the process of starting up and connecting to the SEN, something that can take hours or days.
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