Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has announced on social media that the situation of the National Electrical System will be particularly tense in the coming days.
“For today, a deficit of more than 2,000 MW is forecast during peak demand or nighttime hours. This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs on any nation that supplies us with fuel,” the head of state stated.
“This Wednesday, for example, the amount of electricity generated in Cuba due to fuel shortages caused by this criminal blockade amounts to 1,100 MW. The best demonstration of what we are saying is the significant improvement in service during the month of April. The arrival of just one fuel ship to a Cuban port, out of the minimum of eight needed each month, allowed us to reduce the deficit and, consequently, the blackouts, which, although they did not disappear entirely, were mitigated,” he added.
In recent days, US media outlets have expressed bewilderment at the heroic resistance of the Cuban people and the firmness and unwavering unity of our government. They have had to acknowledge that, despite the brutal measures of economic and energy strangulation, Cuba remains standing, admitting that the crisis is the result of a severe economic war and energy persecution.
“In short: what the spokespeople for the U.S. regime are trying to portray to the world as a direct consequence of mismanagement by the Cuban government is actually the result of a perverse plan intended to exacerbate the hardships and deprivations of the Cuban people.
Neither the blockade imposed more than six decades ago, nor the 243 tightened measures imposed by the previous Trump administration, could destroy the Revolution,” the president asserted.
Díaz-Canel described the new executive order that completely blocks fuel supplies as a perverse scheme whose main objective is to inflict suffering on the entire Cuban people, to hold them hostage and turn them against the government.
He also affirmed that the easing of some blockade measures a few years ago demonstrated how much both nations could benefit in trade relations and economic and social development without this draconian policy.
“Our response remains the same: always open to dialogue on equal terms, we will continue to resist and create, increasingly convinced that it is up to us to overcome enormous difficulties through our own efforts, united as a nation, and resolute in facing the toughest challenges,” he stated.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
