Des centaines de Cubains ont manifesté dans les rues de Santiago de Cuba, la deuxième ville de l'île, pour exprimer leur mécontentement face aux coupures de courant prolongées survenues en fin de semaine.
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00:00 Hundreds of Cubans have demonstrated in the streets of Santiago de Cuba, the second city in the island,
00:05 to express their discontent with the prolonged power cuts that occurred over the weekend.
00:10 Electricity shortages have become frequent since the beginning of March
00:14 due to maintenance work on the country's largest thermal power plant,
00:18 and the situation is aggravated by a shortage of fuel.
00:21 Indeed, fuel is essential to power the other thermal power plants in operation.
00:27 They are angry.
00:29 Hundreds of demonstrators descended on Sunday, March 17, in the streets of Santiago de Cuba,
00:34 in the southeast of the island, to protest against the long power cuts that the inhabitants have suffered over the weekend.
00:40 People shouted "food and electricity",
00:43 a resident of the city, located 800 km east of Havana,
00:46 told AFP by phone, having required anonymity.
00:50 "Electricity returned later in the day and two rice trucks were on the way,"
00:55 explains this witness.
00:57 The Cuban news website 14 Imedio broadcast the images of the gathering in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo
01:02 on which demonstrators demand electricity and food.
01:06 In recent days, the inhabitants of Santiago de Cuba, the country's second city,
01:11 have been deprived of electricity several times, sometimes for 14 hours.
01:15 Several people have expressed their discontent with the electric service and food distribution,
01:21 as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel reacted to X,
01:24 warning against the enemies of the revolution who exploit this context for destabilizing purposes.
01:30 "There are terrorists based in the United States, which we have denounced several times,
01:35 who encourage actions to destabilize the country," he said.
01:39 Maintenance work of a thermal power plant
01:42 On the same social network, the United States Embassy in Cuba called on the Cuban government
01:47 to respect the rights of the demonstrators.
01:50 The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez,
01:53 then urged Washington not to interfere in the country's domestic affairs, as well as on X.
01:59 Since early March, Cuba has faced a new wave of breakdowns due to maintenance work
02:04 on the thermal power plant in Tonobitra, the largest on the island,
02:08 located in the province of Matanzas, a hundred kilometers east of Havana.
02:12 This weekend, the problem was aggravated by the shortage of fuel affecting the entire country.
02:18 Fuel is necessary to power the other operational thermal power plants.
02:23 The entire island of Cuba has been affected by power cuts,
02:27 including the capital, said Cuban authorities on Saturday.
02:31 In 2022, Cuba experienced an unprecedented drop in its electricity production
02:36 and even a widespread breakdown caused by Hurricane Ian.
02:39 Cuba's electricity production system consists of eight old thermal power plants,
02:44 as well as generators and eight generators for Turkey,
02:48 also affected by the lack of fuel.
02:51 With AFP