ACI Prensa Staff, May 9, 2023 / 12:00 pm
The serious gasoline shortage in Cuba has forced Father Kenny Fernández Delgado, a priest of the Archdiocese of Havana in the town of Madruga in Mayabeque province, to ask for help to buy an electric bicycle.
According to local media reports, for weeks there have been long lines throughout the island due to the lack of gasoline and oil, which on the informal market (technically illegal) in some places can cost 500 pesos (about $20) per liter or about $70 per gallon in a country where the minimum salary is approximately $100 a month.
In addition, President Miguel Díaz-Canel recently admitted that the Cuban government doesn’t know how to resolve this crisis.
According to cibercuba.com, Díaz “attributed the current shortage to the breach of agreements by countries with commitments to supply gasoline to Cuba, which also have a complex energy situation and have not been able to fulfill those commitments.”