Havana Cuba. — The month of December has begun and thousands of users are already commenting on social networks that the blackouts, far from abating, have intensified, especially in the provinces. Netizens have timely recalled the guarantee offered by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, who at the end of August ventured to say that by December the blackouts could even decrease to zero.
Surely the unpopular pawn of Raúl Castro had the capacity to generate the seven power plants leased to the Turkish company Karadeniz Holding, three of them anchored in the Havana shipyards, and the rest in the port of Mariel. Despite the fact that these floating units currently provide a quarter of the electricity that the Island consumes, they will not be enough if the national energy system continues to operate at low capacity, with constant breakdowns that make it impossible to eradicate, or at least reduce, blackouts. daily between 12 and 18 hours suffered by the interior provinces.
When Díaz-Canel announced that the blackouts would be reduced to zero, he forgot to specify that the good news would only benefit Havana. To the chagrin and envy of the rest of the country, the impacts have decreased significantly in the capital. There are still some outages scheduled for four hours, but nothing to do with the dark early mornings, between heat and mosquitoes, which for months have embittered the existence of millions of Cubans residing in other provinces.
Again the complaints multiply because they do not turn off the current in Havana; but after the level of abstention registered in the capital during the municipal elections, it cannot be affirmed that said privilege is due to the fact that Havanans are communists, as someone shouted some time ago during the protests in the Pinar del Río municipality of Los Palacios, also because cause of the relentless blackouts.
Havana becomes more ungovernable every day and its inhabitants are very clear that the cause of all evils is castro dictatorship, while the provinces attribute their deficiencies to the supposed perks that Havanans enjoy. The people of Sancti Spíritus describe the prolonged power cuts in Sancti Spíritus as “ruthless”; in Holguín the early mornings are a penance, with another six hours of affectations -at least- during the day; the province of Mayabeque has been declared the “blackout capital” by one of its residents; and in Cienfuegos a citizen deranged because his scarce food rotted after fourteen hours of blackout, climbed a telecommunications tower to protest against the government.
This is how things are going at the beginning of the month that, according to Díaz-Canel, would see the end of the blackouts; a promise that follows the same path as the glass of milk announced fifteen years ago by Raúl Castro. It is the continuity of stupidity, inefficiency and demagogy.
Impossible to forecast how much longer the regime will be able to afford to rent Turkish thermoelectric plants; but any solution that depends on foreign assistance will only be a palliative, and as soon as the “brother country” in turn withdraws its support due to lack of payments or for another reason, the panorama will return to the same critical point that during the summer motivated daily protests due to blackouts of up to twenty hours.
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