Cuban Father after Days without Power: "Let Someone Else Fix It; I Can't Do This to My Kids"

After enduring three days without electricity, with blown transformers and children at the breaking point, Eduardo Ragnar Lothbrok Muñoz Mora, a resident of Campo Florido in Habana del Este, shared a video on Facebook. In it, he condemns the ongoing crisis in Cuba and reveals what he sees as the only solution.

"I've been losing my mind here for three days without power and no communication, trying to keep the kids from losing their sanity, finding ways to make sure they sleep, stay entertained, and eat," shares Muñoz Mora, originally from Manzanillo in Granma province.

The immediate trigger was the collapse of the National Electric System (SEN) on August 2nd at 10:43 PM, though Muñoz Mora wasn't aware of it when it happened. His neighborhood had already been in darkness for 20 hours by the time the national grid failed.

"We didn't even know the SEN had collapsed because we were already in a blackout for almost 20 hours," he explains. "We found out the next day when we had been without power for over thirty hours."

Efforts to restore electricity only made things worse. "Some transformers blew out. They restored power about three hours ago, and in those three hours, it went out ten times." As he recorded the video, the lights had gone out once more.

The most distressing part of his story isn't the heat or the darkness but the anguish of watching his children suffer helplessly.

"Let someone else fix this. I can't do this to my kids anymore," he declares, encapsulating the frustration driving countless Cuban families to consider emigration.

"This is madness, folks. I don't understand how they can be so heartless knowing people despise them," he concludes in the video.

Enduring a Nation's Darkness

The outages on August 2nd and 3rd marked the sixth and seventh nationwide blackouts of the year. The restoration process was slow and incomplete. By Monday, Havana had only managed to restore power to 14% of its customers, with priority given to 19 hospitals.

The account from this father in Campo Florido adds to a growing chorus of similar stories shared across social media throughout 2026. Many content creators in Cuba have voiced the painful decision to leave the country, unable to endure the persistent energy crisis.

A Cuban influencer and mother shared upon leaving Cuba, "I feel my child deserves to grow up where dreaming isn't a luxury, where work is sufficient, and living isn't merely surviving."