Cuba: Un país apagado
Desde Guantánamo, varios cubanos opinan acerca de las consecuencias que tiene para el pueblo la crisis energética que atraviesa la isla.
Encuesta ciudadana
Desde Guantánamo, varios cubanos opinan acerca de las consecuencias que tiene para el pueblo la crisis energética que atraviesa la isla.
Encuesta ciudadana
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00:00The situation in Guantánamo has been extremely critical since the 18th of this month.
00:20There was a general shutdown on the 18th, the system was disconnected.
00:24There were more than 18 hours of shutdowns from that date until the 20th, when the system fell again.
00:30This brought with it that the entire Cuban population was in an abyss.
00:36It is still an abyss, and as the days go by, the problem is still not solved.
00:41And we continue to face intense shutdowns of different hours in different places.
00:48Here in the province of Guantánamo, in the municipality of El Salvador,
00:52localities such as Cuneia and Costa Rica reached the 96th consecutive hours without electricity.
00:59This brought with it the mobilization of police forces in the municipality of El Salvador,
01:04which went there with the orientation to repress in case there were protests.
01:09But well, there were no protests, and they returned to their places.
01:13A total shutdown, total, generalized, that in the special period,
01:19that I remember, in the special period, there was no such generalized shutdown.
01:23The shutdowns of these days have been between 18, 14 and up to 18 hours a day without electricity.
01:29Here in the province of Guantánamo, we were up to 22 hours without electricity,
01:34with an intermediate of two hours of electricity.
01:37There were people who had even more, hours of waiting, others had 18, consecutive hours.
01:44The situation we are experiencing at the moment is critical.
01:49Bread sales have paralyzed, food sales have paralyzed.
01:53At the height we are at, we have not been able to preserve in any way
01:58the food we had in the refrigerators, as a result of the cold, everything was frozen.
02:08There is a very worrying thing that many people of the town,
02:13and I also wonder how it is possible that a single power plant
02:20shuts down, collapses the entire national system.
02:27There are power plants, there are other sub-stations, there are other stations.
02:34The power plant has been disconnected on certain occasions to repair it,
02:39to fix it, for breakdowns, I don't know what, I don't know what.
02:43There have been other situations that they have had to disconnect.
02:46There is something there that I don't want, that they don't speak clearly to the people.
02:51Well, most people had to go to Carbón Vegetal,
02:54buying a can of coal at a very expensive price,
02:57since people took advantage of this price,
03:00of this fall of the national power system,
03:03to increase the price of the can of coal, and thus be able to get rich.
03:10People like me, I had to remember when I was in prison,
03:14I had to fry eggs and make a rice with melted nylon and sack.
03:21I had to burn the sack with melted nylon and make a fire,
03:25and be able to cook eggs and rice,
03:27which is the only thing I was able to eat in my house in these days of shutdown.
03:30You can imagine that all this is leading to an unbearable suffering of the population.
03:35The little food that some people have in their freezers is being thrown away.
03:39The heat, the mosquitoes, the oporoche, the dengue that is ending,
03:43now without a fan, this really makes the situation of the Cuban people,
03:47especially in Guantanamero, insufferable.
03:49Ten, twelve hours of shutdown, hard, very hard,
03:54because there are people of the third age who have to feed themselves,
04:00there is no current, there were no bullets,
04:03many people from here have bullets,
04:08they can't buy, there was no bullet, there was no current.
04:13The number of people in the population had to go to the court and buy firewood, dry firewood.
04:21They had to go to the fields to buy firewood,
04:24to look for firewood in the mountains to be able to cook,
04:26since the coal that the Cuban government promised to sell in squares,
04:32in wineries and in agromarkets, was not sold at any time,
04:36and the person had to go to the firewood because the coal that was in the province,
04:41the particulars, the coal they had, did not go,
04:44did not give to be able to buy everything in the world.
04:48There is no solution to this problem for now, and I don't think there will be either.
04:52There will be improvements, some improvements,
04:54but the process will continue because the Cuban electric system,
04:56as well as the political social system, is thrown to the ground.
04:59That is the situation, that is the reality of Guantanamero today,
05:02suffering and more pain.