MIAMI, United States. — Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel affirmed that the energy crisis that the Island is going through is a consequence of the embargo imposed by the United States, which has left the country without the necessary financing to modernize its energy infrastructure.
During a tour carried out this Saturday by thermoelectric plants in Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque, the president assured that the breakages and breakdowns that most of these plants have suffered have not been caused by sabotage or negligence, but are the result of economic sanctions. imposed by Washington.
“It has to do with the systematic effects that the blockade has caused us, which left the country without possible financing to carry out the maintenance, repair and new investment tasks that the sector needed. Therefore, today we have an accumulated process of technological deterioration, which cannot be resolved in a short time,” Díaz-Canel said in statements reproduced by the portal. Cuban Presidency.
Despite the critical energy situation facing the country, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) insisted that there is a strategy that will allow the blackouts to be overcome before the end of the year.
According to Díaz-Canel, parts and components are currently entering the country that will allow generation to be recovered, which, together with financing for investments in new technologies, will allow stabilizing energy generation at the national level.
Raúl Castro’s successor also indicated that new measures aimed at high consumers to minimize energy consumption have been approved.
The official also explained that in order to minimize blackouts on the island, the Antonio Guiteras and Felton thermoelectric plants, which are the largest in the country, must be fully operational, a fact that has not happened for several months due to the numerous breakdowns and works of maintenance.
Finally, Díaz-Canel denounced that the energy crisis in the country has been taken advantage of by “the enemies of the Revolution to create discouragement, uncertainty, to call for acts of vandalism, to promote disorder.”
“Unfortunately, there are people who, with vandalism, indecent behavior, lend themselves to these actions,” said the president.
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