AREQUIPA, Peru – Fuel shortages on the island made it impossible to pick up passengers this Sunday in Santiago de Cuba, where dozens of Cubans were stranded at the city terminal while waiting since dawn for service.
A report by journalist Yosmany Mayeta on Facebook He reported the situation at the Calle 4 station, where buses and trucks depart on inter-municipal and inter-provincial routes.
“Several people have written to me to denounce the critical situation with Interprovincial Transportation and the departure of state buses to the municipalities in Santiago de Cuba,” wrote the reporter.
Mayeta shared a short video showing Cubans stranded at the terminal, including women and children, who had been waiting there since approximately 4:00 AM.
“On Sundays, people move, although on a smaller scale, but the real odyssey is from Monday to Friday,” the publication notes.
At the end of April, 52% of the routes of the provincial transport companies were paralyzed, reported On July 16, Cuban Minister of Transportation (Mitrans), Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila.
Furthermore, of the small number of active routes, 86% only offer one trip in the morning and another in the afternoon. The most affected provinces are Camagüey, Granma, Villa Clara, Ciego de Ávila, Holguín, Matanzas and Artemisa.
The transportation Passenger transport in Cuba continues its usual downward trend, based on obsolete vehicles and fuel crises. This reality was discussed in the Commission for Attention to Services of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP), according to the official Granma.
By 2024, the Ministry of Transport’s plan includes transporting 1.306 billion passengers. However, by April only 908 million had been reached, an indication that the established goals may not be achievable, as happens year after year with the regime’s plans.
Meanwhile, also in April, Rodríguez Dávila said that the country was going through “one of the worst moments In recent years, Cuba was using twice as many vehicles five years ago as it is using now, which means that the number of passengers travelling on the roads went from 5.9 million to 2.7 million.
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