Cuba is teetering in the worst of worlds, on the brink of an abyss and lacking an opposition structure to build an alternative. The constant blackouts are the trigger of a popular fury that overwhelms a regime enveloped in confusion and impotence.

The fate of this circumstance matters not only because of what may happen in the largest of the Antilles. Also for what these liberated forces can provoke among the regional regimes that have looked in the Cuban mirror for decades and have used it to contain and punish their own communities.