Millions of people in Cuba were left without electricity on Saturday after leaving the uncomfortable electric network of the nation in the dark before the previous night.
Massive darkening is fourth in the last six months because it is a severe economic crisis of the plague of the Caribbean land. The Ministry of Energy and Mina, in a statement of social media, attributed the latest interruption to the failure in the suburbs in the Havana suburbs, the capital.
The Internet and the telephone service were occasional around 6 pm after the electricity left on Friday at about 8pm.
Lazaro Guerra, director of electricity at the Ministry, said on national television that the power to support vital services such as hospitals is already generated.
The Cuban Union’s statement for electricity published on Saturday says that the strategy is to create a “microsystem” that will be connected to each other to gradually return electricity throughout the country. Several of them have already operated in Guantanamo Provinces, Santiago, Las Tunas and Pinar del Rio.
In Sancti Spiritus, the provincial energy company reported on its Telegram Channel that more than 200,000 customers in the area had electricity thanks to these microsystems.
Many Cuban families use electrical equipment to prepare their meals. The disadvantage could cause the food to thaw in the refrigerators and possibly break down due to an island tropical climate.
“When I was about to cook and make some spaghetti, the strength was gone. And what now?” Cecilia Duquense, a 79-year-old housewife who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Central Havana, said Saturday.
In Havana people were buying food on Saturday. The companies were open, although some worked using batteries or small home generators.
The Bline stations were also open, but the tunnel that rides under the bay of Havana and connects the city with the periphery was dark.
Cuba suffered similar disappearances in October, November and December. The last one was the first of 2025, but in mid -February, the authorities suspended classes and working activities for two days due to lack of electricity production that exceeded 50 percent in the country.
Experts said electricity disorders are the result of lack of fuel in power plants and old infrastructure. Most plants have been active for over 30 years.
The switches come because Cubans experience a severe economic crisis that analysts were blamed for the effects of Coid-19 pandemi, the programs of domestic measures that launched inflation and, above all, the pesting of sanctions by the United States.
