Arequipa, Peru – The Provincial Transportation Company of Havana reported this weekend about the almost total stoppage of Gazelle or Metortaxis service in the Cuban capital due to the lack of fuel.
Through Your Facebook group “Havana Transportation,” the entity said “unfortunately” had to inform that “the Gazelle have not supplied.”
“Currently, none of them is in operation. The few who are working are insufficient to meet our needs,” says the statement.
“There is no fuel available for Gazelles at this time (…) we know how important this service is for our community and we are working hard to solve this situation as soon as possible,” adds the notice.

In the comments of the publication, many users denounced irregularities in the service of Metortaxi, one of the most demanded in the middle of the crisis of transport on the island.
“There is no fuel for the day and at night they are working. How do you explain that?” Wrote an Internet user identified as Yoandrys Rolando Benitez Pérez.
“They spend the day apologizing for the discomfort caused and no solutions are sought, the people live on the apologies of the leaders,” said Alejandro Rabelo, another user.
“For the day no and at night. Is they what are vampires? Or is it something else?” Marlen Jiménez inquired.
The Havana service of Gazelles or Metortaxis, grouped into 23 routes that connect to all municipalities, has a 435 microbuses for passenger transportation, 80 of them paralyzed in the long term, according to the Minister of Transportation in Cuba in Cuba last December.
Due to the country’s energy crisis, the Castro regime allocated a total of 9,800 liters of diesel daily for the work of the routes, “a figure that does not cover the demand of the service, nor is it enough to supply the complete fleet, but between 225 and 228 means, just over 60 % of the vehicles.”
Daily, between 40 and 45 microbuses present possible breaks on average, which means that the same amount of cars does not conclude the service, “due to exits to solve the different problems.”
“The Gazelles microbuses are in intense overexploitation, in their two work systems (daytime and nocturnal), they are vehicles that have more than 600,000 km tours,” the minister justified before the current paralysis.
According to official information, main problems of the Gazelle service are: technical paralyzes in workshop and eventualities for lack of parts, pieces and accessories; Lack of fuel for the entire fleet, and insufficiency of the one assigned to perform on the routes of greater route.