‘We want light’: Tired Cubans protest after two days of widespread blackout

in the middle of a Widespread resistance It lasted for two days, with Cubans protesting on the mountain, as seen in several videos circulating on social networks..

Luis Enrique Nodars, a doctor in Spain, shared in your Facebook account Five videos of a street demonstration in the Havana municipality of Cerro.

“Two hours ago, five short videos from the mountain. Women, as always, breastfeeding,” explains Nordars.

In the pictures, a significant number of people block the street on both sidewalks. People blocking the street can clearly be heard shouting “we want light”.

“People are already tired, brother, same, same,” a Cuban man next to the videographer is heard saying. “It grinds and grinds, it’s already too much, here is no revolution or anything, here is a repression or penetration and repression, that’s all there is.”

A similar protest took place in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, where residents demanded electricity to the beat of a conga in the middle of Casarolazo.As seen Video shared on Facebook By a user identified as Jonatha Cortador. Demonstrators also chanted “We want light”.

On Tuesday, September 27, Lázaro Guerra Hernández, Technical Director of the Electric Union (UNE), A fault in the SEN, which caused “zero power output”. And consequently A General blackout across Cuba.

However, yesterday afternoon the UN He started serving For a segment of consumers in 12 provinces of the country, The blackout for many Cubans was far from over Today is Thursday.

Due to lack of electricity, many people spoil the food in the refrigerator. Those who cook with gas can avoid it by boiling the meat, as several interviewed by DIARIO DE CUBA did, but those who rely on electricity to cook do not have that option.

in this situation, The official press is dedicated to highlighting the government’s interest in advancing the country’s recovery And to justify the problems, but people seem tired of explanations.

Another video, released Twitter Influential Cuban paparazzi and user Victor M. Shared by Dunas, Shows Cubans shout down Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) officials from the Surquitero on the street in Patabano..

🇨🇺 | Canal, along with other PCC officers, were shouted down by Cubans from Surquitero Patabano. pic.twitter.com/j9vKpiEIUE

— Victor M. Duenas (@VictorDuenasCU) September 29, 2022

Among the officers, presumably, was Miguel Díaz-CanelAccording to Dueñas post.

“Cubans are booing and kicking Canal with other PCC officers out of Surquitero Patabano,” Duenas tweeted while sharing the video.

These are not the only protests that have resulted in a long public blackout that has already ended for some parts of Cuba, but continues for many. DIARIO DE CUBA was able to verify that in the early hours of Wednesday, a group of Cubans took to the streets in the neighborhood of El Gogal in the municipality of Holguin, Mayari.

A police agent sent to quell the demonstration told DIARIO DE CUBA that no arrests were made as the crowd dispersed as soon as security forces appeared.