Huge queues of motorists at a gas station in Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba, known as “the city of motorcycles", woke up this Saturday withbig queues of owners of these vehicles waiting in afuel station to be able to put some fuel in their tanks.

“Here in Santiago there are at least 10 CUPETs that offer gasoline service. Only one of them provides service to individuals, in the province that has the most motorcycles in this country. But the leaders do have their own CUPET and they always have gasoline. If we all joined together, they would surely take care of us or find a solution,” protested a user in the group.Facebook ‘Bus & Truck Accidents. For more experience and fewer victims!'

Identified on social networks asAbel De Los Reyes, the user shared images of the crowd of motorcyclists, more than a hundred of them, concentrated around the CUPET garage located on Avenida de los Libertadores.

“Another thing: there are the resellers, who have an organized mafia. They hoard everything and then sell you five liters for 800 pesos. Do you think that those who work at CUPET don't know who they are? They sell to them again and again, and so on until they are full and so are their pockets. I ask for unity and that we be respected,” De los Reyes insisted in his complaint, pointing directly to the corruption that spreads with the consent of the authorities.

In the midst of a serious energy crisis that is spreading throughout the country, many Cubans use their social networks to denounce and protest the long lines that form in front of the few establishments that sell fuel in the cities of Cuba.

Images published by Internet users have reflected therows of dozens of cars parked along several blocks waiting for their turn to acquire some fuel.

The shortage of hydrocarbons has fueled the ingenuity of Cubans, as in the case of a motorcyclist who transformed the gasoline tank of his motorcycle to enlarge it and make more room for the coveted fuel. Named as"the motorbike of the chichón", the vehicle circulates through the city of Matanzas.

However, the general feeling in the country in relation to the energy crisis is one of uncertainty.

A “sensation” that acquired the rank of official declaration this Friday when the Cuban leaderMiguel Diaz-Canel acknowledged that his administrationIt is not clear how it will emerge from the serious energy crisis that hits the country, attributing it to the failure to comply with agreements by countries with commitments to supply gasoline to Cuba.