President of Cuba warns of fuel shortage after US blockade

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said that the brutal blockade of fuel supplies by states has left the island without oil and fuel oil.

According to him, the situation of the national electricity system has been particularly tense in recent days.

“For today’s journey, a deficit of more than 2 thousand MW is expected at times of maximum demand or night peak. This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the USA subjects our country, threatening with irrational tariffs any nation that supplies us with fuel”, said the Cuban president on social media

Because of the criminal siege, he explained that the unavailability of fuel affected the generation of 1,100 MW of energy on Wednesday (13).

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“The best demonstration of what we say is the significant improvement in service in the month of April. The entry into the Cuban port of just one fuel ship, out of the eight that are needed as a minimum each month, made it possible to reduce the deficit and, as a result, the blackouts, which, although they did not disappear completely, managed to be mitigated”, he states.

Díaz-Canel said that US media outlets, which serve that country’s warmongering agenda, report “dismay at the heroic resistance of the Cuban people and the unity of the government.”

“They had to recognize that, despite the cruel economic and energy suffocation measures that the USA decreed, Cuba is still standing, it is not a failed state. They admitted that the crisis that affects us is the result of the severe economic war that they impose on us and the energy persecution”, he criticizes.

The Cuban president says that state government spokespeople are trying to show the world that the country’s problems are a direct consequence of poor management by the Cuban government. “In reality, it is the result of a perverse plan that aims to take the needs and difficulties of the people to extreme levels”, he states.

“Our response remains the same: always willing to dialogue on equal terms, we will continue to resist and create, increasingly convinced that it is up to us to leap, with our own efforts, over enormous difficulties, united as a nation, and firm to face the toughest challenges”, he adds.