Otto Ortiz narrates odyssey to buy fuel in Cuba: "There are missing ministers to remove"

The Cuban actor and comedian Otto Ortiz recounted the odyssey he spent in the early morning to refuel at a CUPET gas station in Havana, where he confirmed that the payment methods enabled for banking do not work and "there are many ministers missing."

In a post of Facebook He said that in the early hours of Saturday, around 12:00 am, he formed in "the gasoline line" to deliver with the full tank a car that had been lent to him, and he waited until 5:00 am when they told him that there was no payment system available.

When the end of the line formed, it was "five blocks from the Cupet and, according to my comrades in misfortune, we were easy, it was a baby line, a girl. Well, and not to make the story long, at 5 am, "When I was only 2 blocks away, someone came and said 'The system is down,'" he explained.

He states that the person reiterated “The system fell,” to which he innocently responded: “No, they only removed 3 ministers.”

"There they explained to me that gasoline is only dispensed by card, free banking, and that in the early mornings there tends to be connection problems." Shortly after, the same person who announced the fall of the system said that "they will only serve Fincimex cards." .

After this, the drivers who had this card began to break the line. "Cars began to leave from behind, from the side, even flying cars, all in disarray for the Cupet, practically the street was blocked by so many cars piled up trying to load fuel," said Ortiz.

However, a “pistero” clarified that Fincimex cards did not go through the system either and asked the drivers to rejoin the queue.

"The crowd of cars made a U-turn and began to take positions in the looted line," but as a "final result, I don't know how or why, I was five blocks away again," he explained.

At the end of the day, the comedian could not refuel because at the gas station "you cannot pay in cash; the system, the connection, constantly goes down and stops the service; Fincimex cards do not always work when the system is down "There are some cards, coupons, that don't work either."

The comedian questions:why the country became banked? and Why remove cash payment? when the system is so inefficient.

"Now we have Cup card, Mlc card, Fincimex card, Classic card... and in cases like this none of them work," he stressed.

In October the Cuban regime announced that drivers would no longer be able to buy fuel with cash at gas stations, and that terminals would be enabled to guarantee payment with cards.