Cuban government delays the increase in fuel prices due to alleged cyber attack

The Cuban Government will not be able to apply for now the announced increase in fuel prices that was scheduled for Thursday, February 1 due to a cyber attack on the CIMEX corporation.

As explained by the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso on his wall Facebook, the price update is extended as well as the marketing of fuel in USD.

"The decision is due to a cybersecurity attack on the CIMEX marketing system. The Vice Minister of Economy and Planning reported just minutes ago that it was caused by a virus from abroad," he explained.

At the beginning of the month, the Minister of Finance and Prices, Vladimir Regueiro Ale, said on the Mesa Redonda television program that the gasoline price in Cuba would increase by more than 500%, with which the regime will equate fuel prices to the current exchange rate, of approximately 120 pesos to one dollar.

As of February 1, motor gasoline, B83, was scheduled to be sold at a retail price of $0.95 or 114 pesos; regular gasoline fuel (B90), at 1.10 dollars per liter or 132 Cuban pesos in service centers that sell in that currency, while special gasoline (B94), at 1.30 dollars or 156 CUP.

In the case of regular diesel, the most consumed, it will have a value of 1.10 dollars per liter and 132 Cuban pesos.

A total of 29 gas stations will begin to sell fuel exclusively in dollars, except for one of them that will also offer services in CUP pesos.

The Nueva Imagen service center, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Ávila, will be the only one that will have a mixed service because it is at the entrance of the keys and there is no other nearby.

The 29 service centers, distributed in capital cities and tourist enclaves throughout the country, will not accept cash payment, only by card, as was already being done even with purchases in Cuban pesos.

The established payment methods are VISA, MIR, MasterCard cards, prepaid cards issued by BANDEC, the AIS card, the Viajero card and the Classic card, a new financial product that can be acquired in the national CADECAS network.

Tania Vives Alfonso, economic vice president of CIMEX, reported that depending on the behavior of demand, the network of service centers will gradually expand in the country, depending fundamentally on everything that is collected.