19 DAYS TO SAVE THE LIGHTS

[Luis Gonzalez]

19 DAYS TO SAVE THE LIGHTS
Cuba’s Electrical Collapse Meets the Revolution’s Most Important Anniversary

The Last Wire

Political systems are rarely tested first by elections or speeches. They are tested by infrastructure.

Electricity is the operating system of a modern society. When the grid begins to fail, the effects ripple through healthcare, food distribution, transportation, industry, and ultimately public confidence.

My latest analysis examines why the next 19 days could become a defining period for the Cuban government's electrical system and why infrastructure may now be a more important measure of state legitimacy than ideology.

If you're interested in governance, resilience, and the relationship between infrastructure and political stability, I invite you to read the article.

 — Gonzo
 
Read 19 Days to Save the Lights.

[Bigun]

Yet another well thought out piece! Thanks @Luis Gonzalez

[Lando Lincoln]

Good stuff, Luis. I guess I was unaware of the July 26 connection. I should have been.

You reference the aging generation systems in Cuba. I’m sure the same holds true for the grid and distribution network. Just a matter of time. July 26 will be interesting.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Without light.
Without food.
Without a future.

What systemic failures led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact?  That is the only instance that I can remember of a communist totalitarian system collapsing.

As long as the Cuban Government is able to inflict terror and fear among the people, they will have the ability to remain in power.

Mao and Stalin were able to starve millions and still remain in power.

The Venezuelan dictatorship is still in power, with a new dictator.

The Lenninist-Stalinist-Maoist totalitarian communist systems are structured to treat their own populace as their greatest existential threat, and to disarm them of weapons, thought, and spirit.

As long the Cuban Government can oppress and repress its own people, it will remain in power with or without electricity.

Like Iran and North Korea, they will make use of organized crime to obtain many of the things they are forbidden by the outside world.

It will be the Cuban Government's failure to keep its party elites in the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed that will bring about its collapse from within.

The Cuban Regime does not need to provide for all its people to survive, it only needs to continue to provide for the party elites - those whom are more equal than others.

The only infrastructure the Cuban Regime truly needs is the infrastructure of fear and terror.

[Cyber Liberty]

Thank you for posting this!  I was not aware there's a big holiday coming up.  The Cuban government will be spinning like mad when they can't get the lights to come back on!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Yet another well thought out piece! Thanks @Luis Gonzalez

Thanks brother.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Good stuff, Luis. I guess I was unaware of the July 26 connection. I should have been.

You reference the aging generation systems in Cuba. I’m sure the same holds true for the grid and distribution network. Just a matter of time. July 26 will be interesting.

I've seen images out of Havana with surgeons working under cell phone lights.

It's almost unimaginable.

Thanks.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thank you for posting this!  I was not aware there's a big holiday coming up.  The Cuban government will be spinning like mad when they can't get the lights to come back on!

July 26 is usually celebrated with a huge parade and all sorts of rallies etc.

Not dure anyone is going to be up to celebrating the "Triumphs of the Revolution" this year.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Without light.
Without food.
Without a future.

What systemic failures led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact?  That is the only instance that I can remember of a communist totalitarian system collapsing.

As long as the Cuban Government is able to inflict terror and fear among the people, they will have the ability to remain in power.

Mao and Stalin were able to starve millions and still remain in power.

The Venezuelan dictatorship is still in power, with a new dictator.

The Lenninist-Stalinist-Maoist totalitarian communist systems are structured to treat their own populace as their greatest existential threat, and to disarm them of weapons, thought, and spirit.

As long the Cuban Government can oppress and repress its own people, it will remain in power with or without electricity.

Like Iran and North Korea, they will make use of organized crime to obtain many of the things they are forbidden by the outside world.

It will be the Cuban Government's failure to keep its party elites in the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed that will bring about its collapse from within.

The Cuban Regime does not need to provide for all its people to survive, it only needs to continue to provide for the party elites - those whom are more equal than others.

The only infrastructure the Cuban Regime truly needs is the infrastructure of fear and terror.

Cuba is as near-perfect a jail as Alcatraz was back in the day.

It has to implode before help can be sent.

Thanks.

[Lando Lincoln]

I think it is very difficult for any of us to grasp the middle class prosperity of Havana in the 50’s. It was the disparity of wealth and land ownership outside of Havana that led to the appeal of the revolutionaries. In turn, it led to countless deaths, the flight of able and industrious people, and the slow ruin of a nation.

And that song is being sung today right in our backyard.

[Bigun]

I think it is very difficult for any of us to grasp the middle class prosperity of Havana in the 50’s. It was the disparity of wealth and land ownership outside of Havana that led to the appeal of the revolutionaries. In turn, it led to countless deaths, the flight of able and industrious people, and the slow ruin of a nation.

And that song is being sung today right in our backyard.

And that breaks my heart!

[Lando Lincoln]

Cuba power grid suffers “total disconnection”