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The kilometer-long queues to buy gasoline in Cuba continue and the Government blames the US

The official press once again accused Washington of the shortages suffered by the Island.


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The Cuban Government has once again blamed the US for the kilometer queues to buy fuel on the Island.

Images published this Monday show large lines of cars waiting to refuel at various points in Havana.

Near the gas station in Zapata, passing the Colón cemetery, there were dozens of cars parked waiting to access the gas station.

A scene that was also repeated at the gas station located near the Acapulco Cinema, in Nuevo Vedado. There were also queues for the Tángana gas station on the Malecón.

Queue for the Tángana gas station on the Malecón / CiberCuba

The problems with refueling are not only occurring in Havana, since for weeks there have been similar episodes in Holguín and Santiago de Cuba.

However Granma In an article published this Tuesday, under the title "Fuels: the gringos turn off the tap to blame us," he pointed out the United States Government as the main culprit for this situation and the problems with liquefied gas.

The note even criticized people who blame the country's leaders and gas station workers.

The First Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, Ana Teresita González, joined the attacks on Washington through a message she published on her Twitter account.

"The unconventional aggressive measures of the US government, irrational and unprecedented in international practice, aimed at depriving Cuba of fuel supplies, are a sign of the impotence of the Empire in its aims to destroy the Cuban Revolution," he wrote. .

Three days ago the residents of the Cuban capital showed their despair over fuel shortage, a common problem that calls into question the words that Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke in September.

On that occasion, the Cuban leader spoke of a temporary period to justify the shortage and lack of fuel on the Island, however he stated that the country had not come to a standstill and that "the first moment of the current situation" had expired.

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CiberCuba journalist. Graduate in Journalism from the CEU Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia, Spain. Editor at Siglo XXI, Agencia EFE, Las Provincias y El Mundo.


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