The Cuban government dismissed the Minister of Energy and Mines, Nicolás Liván Arronte Cruz, and the general director of the Electrical Union (UNE), Jorge Armando Cepero Hernández, in the midst of the energy crisis that the country is going through, with daily blackouts of more than 10 hours throughout the country.
The news was announced on the television broadcast of Noticiero al Mediodía.
According to the official note read, the Council of State, at the proposal of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel and prior approval of the Political Bureau of the Party, agreed to promote Vicente de la O Levy, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer, who worked as minister as head of the electronics business group.
The school only adds that Arronte Cruz, who has been at the head of the organization since December 2019, will "be assigned new responsibilities."
For its part, the Electrical Union will from now on be directed by Alfredo López Valdés, who in previous stages has been in charge of the UNE and the Ministry of Energy and Mines itself, and the Ministry of Industries.
The deposed Jorge Armando Cepero Hernández assumed his position in 2021.
Cuba is going through the worst national energy crisis in its history, with extensive blackouts for months, and numerous units of several thermoelectric plants out of service due to breakdowns.
For this Monday, the UNE announced power cuts due to a deficit in generation capacity of up to 1,329 MW during peak hours, the highest figure since last Wednesday, when a deficit of 1,418 MW was recorded.
At the end of August, Díaz-Canel Bermúdez warned that the crisis would not have a short-term solution and that complex days remain, marked by breakdowns and outages of numerous plants of the National Electroenergy System.
The governor then reported that among the objectives of the recovery strategy was minimize blackouts before the end of the year, something that the population, overwhelmed by suffering from blackouts for so long, doubts will materialize.
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