The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, assured during a speech at the Investment Forum of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), held in the Italian capital, that the electrical infrastructure of the country is “strong.”
In a speech, shared by official media, Díaz-Canel declared that Cuba “has infrastructure industrial, productive, hydraulic and electrical “in a clear process of strengthening.”
Díaz-Canel’s statements collide with the reality of daily blackouts and the energy crisis that affects the island’s population. And instead of taking advantage of the fact that it was an investor forum, he denied the harsh reality of the island, with an electricity industry in clear deterioration.
For example, this Wednesday, October 16, the Electrical Union (UNE) detailed in its daily report that “an availability of 2005 MW is estimated for peak hour and a maximum demand of 3380 MW, for a deficit of 1375 MW, therefore “If the expected conditions continue, an impact of 1,445 MW is forecast during this time.”
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Let us remember that in September of this year, during an extraordinary plenary session of the Provincial Committee in Sancti Spíritus, the president assured that his government would solve the problems before the end of the year and would restore “light to the population.”
But that is not the reality. Nor did this happen with the promised “rest” from the blackouts during the summer period, where there were also long blackouts, like these, lasting more than 10 hours in most provinces.
Also, in mid-May, Díaz-Canel assured Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet that with the fuel deficit and the obsolescence of Cuban thermoelectric plants, the town is suffering from “modest” blackouts.
Canel tried to reduce the impact of the continuous electrical outages that in many homes throughout the country last more than 12 hours in a row.
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