Havana/Two red mastodons stand out in front of the University of Havana this Friday. Although the scenario for the concert that Silvio Rodríguez will offer tonight is visually more striking, passers -by only have eyes for the structure that will prevent the show from being interrupted due to lack of electric fluid. With a sweet look, with gestures of confusion others and with resignation the vast majority, those who approach cannot stop saying any comment on the robust energy plants.
“This is for the blue color to be seen in the unicorn,” Ironized a man, with a bag with some food, which crossed the street just to read the signs attached to the devices. “Geysel, 30 years putting energy in his hands,” he highlights on a sign on moles remarkably well cared for if they are compared to the devices eaten away by oxide and many times broken that are seen outside some polyclinics and public offices. “It seems that these are the ones who have for political acts,” said a woman who joined the visual inspection.
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In a city that has suffered longer blackouts since last week the national energy system collapsed and left the entire nation in the darka generator set unleashes a frenzy of desires. “With one of that I sleep several full nights and without having to scare my mosquitoes,” speculated a young man who, laughing, agreed with his friends to see himself later to try to enter the presentation. A few meters away, most of the lights, scaffolding and sound equipment were already located at the foot of the wide staircase of the hill.
Tonight, surrounding neighbors will come not only music when Rodriguez starts to sing, but also the glow of lamps that are of a strong symbolic load in a country where even baseball should be suspended due to lack of current. This day is expected an affectation of 1,760 megawatts so it is unlikely that the Vedado and the surroundings of the concert are not affected. “If I leave the light I come here,” said an old woman who was waiting for the bus at a few meters.
The singer -songwriter says he chose the place because he recently saw “Very positive attitudes” Among the students of the University Student Federation in their protest before the rise in Etecsa rates, known as Rate. But his intention to approach the younger generations, consumers of other musical styles away from the new trova, could include a well -contradictory message. Accustomed to doing school homework in the light of a candle and to bed, these boys will see before them a deployment of lights and energy plants that only the powerful can enjoy in Cuba. The author of Hopefully It will create an island with electricity inside the island in gloom.
