Frances Robles

It's when the power comes on.

Because the power comes on at maybe 11 o'clock at night or 12 o'clock and you've got to jump out of bed and you have to charge your phone, you have to charge your laptop.

And if you're, you know, a family, you know, a head of a household, you're getting a pot of rice and beans on the stove to cook the next day's meals.

Yeah.

You're hearing really, really dramatic stories like that.

People having to walk hours and hours to their jobs.

People who are not able to work because their work depends on having electricity and having Internet.

It's a really terrible situation.

I would say that the answer to that tends to be generational.

I think older people are blaming the United States.

You know, the talking points from the government is certainly that this is all the United States' fault.

And the younger people are much more apt to blame the Cuban government and for the mistakes that it's made during the management of its country that led to this fiasco.

They say it's an illegal...

I think they've used the word genocide, that it's going to lead to a bloodbath and that it will be the United States' fault.

They don't recognize any errors that they've ever made.

And they 100 percent see this as the fault of the Trump administration.

It's been 67 years and they have had really severe hardship in the past and they've always weathered.

And I think a lot of people feel that maybe the Trump administration is underestimating the degree to which these people will want to hang on to power at any cost.

Thanks for having me.

Decades.