Fuel shortage in Cuba! Rationed sales in Havana

The shortage of fuel has forced the sale of the product to be regulated at gas stations in Havana, where there are also repeated blackouts. The lack of fuel has also hampered harvests such as the mango harvest currently carried out by the state-owned company Ceballos de Ciego de Ávila.

On Monday, the official newspaper Tribuna de La Habana published about the low availability at gas stations in the capital.

Regular gasoline was sold in Infanta and San Rafael, Centro Habana; El Tángana, Revolution Square; 112 and 5th, Beach; 5th between 120 and Cubanacán, Miramar, Playa; The Tunnel, Ave. 7th. corner to 2, Beach; and G and 25, Vedado.

In the case of motor gasoline, it was available in Ciudad Deportiva and G and 25; special gasoline, in Zapata, between 2 and 4, Vedado, and diesel in 112 and 5ta, Playa, and 5ta. between 120 and Cubanacán, Miramar, Playa.

Readers who commented on the information noted that there was no fuel at some of the gas stations mentioned before noon.

“A little after 11:00 AM I went through the Iron Bridge Tunnel (7th and 2nd) and there was no gasoline, however, where there was, it was at the gas station at 31 e/ 18 and 20 and that does not appear on the list. Please, check the information well before publishing it,” asked Raquel Hernández.

Another reader complained: “It is unacceptable that if private transporters have a contract with Fincimex, pay their taxes, have the same legal personality as a state company, have nowhere to buy diesel, in most service centers that have diesel they only dispatch for companies and state agencies. Think that most of the products that come from the countryside to the capital are transported by private companies and all the consequences that not guaranteeing the supply under equal conditions to state and private individuals can bring.”

The same state media of the Cuban capital published the announcement of blackouts for this Tuesday in some areas. The Electric Company in Havana attributed them to “maintenance” in the facilities.

Residents of some neighborhoods of Diez de Octubre, Arroyo Naranjo, Boyeros, La Lisa, Marianao, Plaza-Cerro, Playa and San Miguel del Padrón will suffer power outages between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM this Tuesday.

The shortage of fuel has also “hindered” the current mango harvesting campaign at the state-owned agro-industrial company Ceballos, one of the country’s most important canning companies.

“Serious limitations with resources, fundamentally with fuel, have hindered the current mango campaign,” the entity said on its social networks, where it also assured that “it does not stop looking for solutions and so far it has harvested more than 1,000 tons of the fruit”.

According to the newspaper Invasor, in March, Ceballos proposed that his technical plan reach 38,000 tons by the end of the year.

Recently, reports of losses due to lack of supplies, fuel, and rotting of such basic products have emerged in the official press, which the State even subsidizes, such as the potato.

In the same province of Ciego de Ávila, at the end of May, around 800 tons of pineapple could be inside and outside the Majagua Conservas Factory, due to the plant’s lack of processing capacity, which has backward technology and It is also affected by breakages and blackouts.

In April, farmer Leonel Capote, from Güira de Melena, denounced the loss of his pumpkin harvest, just two months after the government stated that food was wasted in Cuba due to “lack of food culture.”