The Cuban regime cuts off the power supply to prevent massive power outages: "We are at a critical point"

Cuban authorities reduce the consumption of electricity in their territories starting this week and in order to avoid mbadive power outages at a time when the island is facing a financial crisis.

A newspaper dispatch Invader, official organ of the Communist Party of the Eastern Province of Ciego de Ávila, said this weekend that After a videoconference of the Electrical Union with the provinces of the country, the limits were set. It was not specified about the others, but this entity corresponds to a reduction of 10% of current expenditure.

Although no official information is available, the authorities are preparing to face a scorching tropical summer in the middle of the fuel shortages caused by the political crisis in Venezuela (its main ally and which sells half of the oil that the island needs at preferential prices) and a drastic tightening of US sanctions announced this week by the administration of President Donald Trump.

Until 2007, all energy produced in the country was distributed indiscriminately, but Following an energy crisis this year and for better control of the resource, it was decided that each province would count with an amount and that failure would produce the outage..

As verified AP for the moment, there have been no such reductions in the capital or in several neighboring provinces. However every year and as the summer progresses, authorities usually cut off office hours or turn off air conditioners in banks and other dependencies in order to avoid excessive consumption and rationing the resource.

"We are at a critical point"writes the newspaper Invader. "And if, at certain times of the day, the fuel set for the day is exhausted, it would be necessary to begin to eliminate the current in some circuits."

At the same time, he called on the population to become aware of the problem. "It is people, at work and at home, who decide on the proper use of one or the other energy variant, and the one who wastes it in the workplace, besides affecting the economy, puts the neighborhood in danger"

This week, John Bolton, security advisor of the US State Department and the White House, announced a package of measures to leave Cuba without economic resources and to push for it. According to the authorities, there is a change in the pattern of Nicolás Maduro's government in Venezuela.

Cuba has to deal with the shortage of certain basic necessities.