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Cuba X-ray: Power Doesn’t Pay Debts but Demands Obedience

This vicious circle reduces production, hurts household economies, and ultimately worsens shortages in the domestic market.

In Cuba, there is hardly any electricity. That is a fact. But the workers in this field also lack the means to perform their duties.

Cuban authorities have extended exceptional tariff benefits, established to ease the shortage of basic necessities and the energy crisis…

While in the US consumers are facing increasingly higher prices, in Latin America food is getting cheaper.

They offer contracts in US dollars and work visas for the island of Grenada to Cuban masons and carpenters.

It’s clear that the Union Electrica state power co. is looking more like a team of firefighters trying to put out blazes with water pistols.

Basic services do not reach these territories, nor does state interest. No one listens, no one solves anything.

The Government insists the maintenance of the Guiteras plant is essential and calls on the population for “understanding and discipline”.

The reconnection of the grid does not mean electricity has returned to all Cubans, who suffer an average of over 15 hours a day without power

Cuba’s State Electric Company (UNE) reported the news in a message on its social networks on Wednesday morning.