Nota Informativa

A Nota Informativa is the Cuban government's standard format for an official public statement issued by a ministry, state agency or state-owned enterprise. The format is short, declarative and timed for state-media publication, typically covering operational announcements, policy clarifications, or sensitive event communications such as accidents or sanctions developments.

On Thursday 14 May 2026, Unión Eléctrica Nacional (UNE) issued a Nota Informativa announcing the 06:09 partial disconnection of the Sistema Eléctrico Nacional from Ciego de Ávila through Guantánamo. The notice detailed sequential reconnections through to 10:44 for the four central provinces while confirming that Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo continued operating on isolated local microsystems for vital services only.

Notas Informativas are the principal Cuban-government primary source available to Lowdown for grid, energy and emergency-response coverage. Lowdown's editorial treatment applies primary-source weight to UNE Notas alongside Cubadebate and Granma reporting, but the absence of a Nota on a topic (for instance, EO 14404 or the Lastres Morera designation) is also editorially meaningful: it signals which developments Havana wants framed and which it leaves to silence.