In Cuba, motorists have been queuing for fuel, sometimes for days at a time, due to crippling shortages.
The island nation is highly dependent on energy imports.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel blames oil-producing countries.
Fuel shortages are some of the biggest challenges facing the president, who was re-elected for a second term last week.
Al Jazeera’s Ed Augustin reports from Havana.
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And Venezuela not allowed to sell its oil .
Disgusting sanctions
Venezuela’s entire oil sector has been broken for years now due to corruption and massive government mismanagement.
Lmao Venezuela has been sending Cuba free oil for years.
Sanctions does not works for Venezuela-Cuba. Up to now in Cuba there wasn’t shortage. So, you have not to blame sanctions.
Why doesn’t Russia help you?
Why they help them
😂😂😂
@india 🇮🇳 alience since cold war.
The US are keeping all for themselves
Al Jazeera makes the link between fuel availability and every aspect of a functional economy in this piece… then click on a piece about Global Warming and the narrative flips completely… Nuclear energy, pipelines, fracking, coal, gas are all considered objective evils at the same time… so let me say this plainly… let Cuba get some solar panels and wind turbines… Al Jazeera posts a piece nearly every day claiming this is what the world needs to do… and that it will somehow be cheaper and create jobs…
How’s that commie government working out for ya?! Maybe if your Dicktator would play well with others.
What happened to Chinese yhuan
Sounds and looks like lebnan
Get a bike carlos
America is to Blame .
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@Rita Gameiro the U.S has placed a 60 year old embargo on Cuba, that is the reason Cuba fully prosper. Without trade countries cannot thrive
@A dying bottle of juice that’s the go to excuse. If there is an embargo why is that cuba imports sugar, a product cuba was a producer of? Why is there lack of chicken meat, when chickens meat was a local production? Why is it no product lacks in hotels?
That’s the go to excuse of cuba regime propaganda. How many cubans that live in cuba do u know?
I know a few, some u can actually follow on youtube. In those videos u see them receiving gifts with all sorts of products? If there is an embargo why is it that tuna and sardine caned by a spanish firm, given for free as aid to cuba, apears in dollar stores (dollar stores in cuban is stores where cuban are made to pay in dollars, a currency that isn’t theirs as they are payed in cuban currency, like if it’s to rob cubans of the litle that they have to give to a select few to spend in miami, and yes, they arw seen partying there). Propaganda go to excuses I’m sorry but I’m not a gulible fool. I actually been to cuba and seen it with my 2 eyes, I actually know cubans and their reality.
@Rita Gameiro Cuba’s healthcare system is thriving and very sufficient which is and still mind you the envy of the global south. >90% of Cubans have their own homes while Americans spend half of their income on housing and 37 million of them are uninsured for healthcare and 60,000 US citizens die each year due to lack the health coverage. 50 million Americans are food insecure and Flint, Michigan doesn’t have clean drinking water.
Cuba has a stronger track record on life expectancy, infant mortality, child malnutrition and literacy. Cuban scientists made a lung cancer vaccine and eliminate the mother-to-child transition of HIV/AIDS and syphilis.
@SolarisParadox on the other hand 90% of those 90% who have homes are considered at risk of colapse, meaning they can fall on the occupants heads, some have up to 5 people sharing a tiny room. So that becomes mute.
As for the magnificent health 😂, I trully desire u the same level of desinfectant they use in cuba, the same after effect of loosing a foot from a preventable infection due to not using something as basic as bleech, I trully wish the same fate to u of all the stories I came to know from ur the magnificent health care u so pacionatelly defend. I wish the same look I saw in a mother’s eyes looking at her crippled son due to that magnificent sistem, from the bottom of my heart if there is justice, please make karma catch ur coment in the name lf cuban people.
He who sows iniquity will reap misfortune, and the rod of his wrath will smite himself.
Who are these countries not fulling their commitments thought the president seem very unwilling to say…
My guess is Russia or China??
( Well I looked it up and it seems it’s Venezuela… They get gas almost for free from there under some old socialist agreement in the 2000’s… but Venezuela seems to not have enough gas for itself these days so it cutting them off and they don’t have enough money to buy from the international market in the amount they need…)
Venezuela has more than enough petrol, the problem is refinement.
Do some more homework and you’ll find out the US convinced the Saudis to lower the price of oil to destroy Venezuela.
So if I came to your house killed everyone there and took your house from you how many of you would be ok with that ? That’s exactly what that dictator did in my house you people love the wicked and scorn the righteous. Just as God said !
We went through this in Lebanon
Is is better?
@Rita Gameiro Cuba is doing way better than Lebanon because capitalism is an inhuman system that is at the bottom of the pit and you can’t have any vestiges of it left.
End the embargo. It might not solve everything, but enough is enough.
cuba can trade with everyone, just not usa. Educate yourself, Commie.
There is fuel for tourists when they rent cars at a special gas station along the roads also fuel for all tourist buses.
Money talks and BS walks.
The irony for a communist country.
@Parsian Cuba needs tourists to dig it out of the hole Trump put it in.
Did any of you know the embargo was created because Nixon was upset to lose his cash-cow investments in Batista’s casinos?
Pero c supone q Venezuela suministra a Cuba d Petroleo??
It’s a vicious cycle. They can get only so much fuel, when it’s available at all. But they then have to spend a percentage of that queuing at another gas station 😕
Where is Venezuela oil?
You’d think their buddy ruzzia would be suppling them with more then they could possibly use.
Come to Miami few days ago there was lines and empty pumps
¡Cubanos sí! 🇨🇺☭ ¡Gusanos no! 🐛🚫
Just water it down… 92F 😝
The USA needs to give the Cuban People back their lively hoods, n take them off the terrorist list ASAP! Especially if they want to stop all the desperate Cuban’s coming over illegally. What does the USA expect is going to happen, otherwise? Some might say, it’s not our problem, but at the end of the day, it is. We waste millions, when instead, the USA n Cuba could be making millions! I ❤ Cuba, n it saddens me that the one’s keeping the Cuban people in this desperate situation, is some of their own, that live very comfortable in FL.
End the criminal blockade! 🇨🇺 ☭