Cuban ingenuity in the face of fuel crisis: The motorcycle with the bump travels through Matanzas

In the midst of the current fuel crisis throughout the country, Cubans have had to resort to ingenuity to overcome the shortage.

Some, as shown by several posts on social networks, have modified their vehicles, as is the case of the driver who enlarged his fuel tank and now circulates through Matanzas on "the bump motorcycle."

A publication inFacebook from the user identified as "Kimbe Marquez" affirms that "the issue of gasoline in Cuba has led Cubans to find ways to be able to take a little more than what they give when the valuable and missing fuel enters."

"Not even NASA does anything to it, I baptize it as The Tank with Bump," he jokes about the image, where you can see a motorcycle with the tank modified with what appears to be a gas bullet.

In recent weeks, drivers have had to dolong lines at gas stations in the country and dial even during the early hours.

In Santiago de Cuba, gasoline was rationed for motorists to five liters per person.

"Look at the queue for just five liters of gasoline here in Santiago de Cuba, is this also the case in the other provinces?" user Abel de los Reyes published this Saturday in the Facebook group “ACCIDENTS BUSES & TRUCKS for more experience and fewer victims!”

After the publication, other Internet users in the comments assured that the situation issimilar in almost all the provinces of the country.

Likewise, others denounced the critical situation in the island's capital, where "the queues last for days," as one user said. "How sad the misery that the communists have put on us," he lamented.

Last Friday it emerged that the lines to buy gasoline in Havana extended for several blocks in municipalities such as Guanabacoa, according to reports from Internet users on social networks.

Dozens of cars remained parked and theirdrivers walked next to their vehicle without knowing when they could buy the fuel.

Huge queues have also been reported on Monte Avenue, which turns onto Rastro Street and ends at a service center in Belascoaín.

The shortage extends to several provinces; In Las Tunas and Holguín the government has not sold gasoline for days either, some Internet users said.

The mandataryMiguel Diaz-Canel said on television this Friday about the fuel crisis: "We are not clear how we will get out of this."