MADRID, 27 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cuban state oil company, Unión Cuba Petróleo (CUPET), announced this Wednesday a deficit in the availability of fuels throughout the country.
As reported by the company in a statement, a demand “higher than usual” and the “operational difficulties” of logistics on the island would have led to less fuel production than necessary.
In this sense, CUPET has explained that it will carry out “the necessary work” to stabilize the supply of gas stations in Cuba, detailing that it has “the support of specialized teams” to transport fuel by road from the Cienfuegos Refinery “to the whole country”.
Cuba has been suffering for months from an energy crisis that has caused daily electricity blackouts for months throughout the island, which in turn has increased social discontent and the number of protests due to supply cuts, aggravated by the passage of Hurricane ‘Ian’ and due to the fire last August in the fuel tanks at the Matanzas supertanker port.
In fact, the Cuban government dismissed on October 17 the then Minister of Energy and Mines of Cuba, Liván Arronte, in the midst of the energy crisis that the island is suffering due to its dependence on fossil fuels, the United States trade blockade and the economic crisis affecting the country.
