Cuba: Un país apagado

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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

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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.

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