MADRID, Spain.- The state company Unión Cuba Petróleo (CUPET) denied that it was exporting gasoline in the midst of the fuel crisis that the island is going through, which has increased during the last three weeks.
“We cannot allow things to be misrepresented, nor create more disagreements than we already have with the shortages that we all suffer, and that we are working to reduce as soon as possible,” he told the official. cubadebate Néstor Pérez Franco, general director of CUPET.
The headline pointed out that for several months there have been “limitations on imports of refinable crudes and derivatives of diesel and gasoline”, for which the refineries in the country have not been able to process as they should, and “thus guarantee the consumption of the economy and the population.
Likewise, he indicated that Cuba does not have enough refinable crude to allow the maximum exploitation of existing refining capacities.
“Although it is true that they could guarantee the country’s consumption, with the limitations that they have imposed on us in imports and the high prices in the markets, it is very difficult for the country to access this product,” he added.
According to his declarations, the Government is permanently following the dissatisfactions due to the shortage of fuels and evaluating solutions.
The fuel crisis has made itself felt in recent weeks with greater intensity. In addition to the increase in power cuts, the lines to buy gasoline can be more than 24 hours on the Island. Even the drivers sleep in their cars in front of the gas stations, waiting to buy it.
Due to the shortage of gasoline, in recent days the Havana authorities limited the sale of fuel per vehicle in the province’s service centers.
Last week the University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara, the main House of higher studies in that province, “Marta Abreu” as well as the Agrarian University of Havana “Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez” reported that face-to-face classes would be temporarily suspended due to fuel shortages in the country.
