During the closing meeting of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)’s comprehensive visit to Villa Clara, the first secretary of this organization and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel referred to the availability of fuel in the country.

The president commented that the gasoline deficit is given because several of the countries that have contracts with the country are going through complex energy situations and have not been able to fulfill the commitments made.

"This has led to the consumption of between 500 and 600 tons of gasoline per day that the country consumes, at the moment we are with coverage of less than 400 tons for all activities in the country and without being clear about how to make the draws to get out of this situation".

He warned that this situation has nothing to do with the country's inefficiencies or energy problems, but rather due to non-compliance for very objective reasons by the countries that supply us with fuel.

"With the case of diesel it is different. In addition to the conjectural situations that are presented to us, we had guaranteed the shipment that assured us continuity. That ship arrived in Santiago de Cuba, broke down there, stopped the departure in time in order to continue to other ports in Cuba and that has caused us a delay in the way to distribute that fuel," he said.

He added that as there is a strategy of having a high level of thermoelectric plants under maintenance in order to guarantee energy availability for the summer, plus those that are out of order, "we have had to depend more on distributed generation that basically consumes diesel; therefore, an important part of that diesel that we have disposed of has gone into electricity generation".

"An important part of the electrical effects that we have had in the last week has to do with the fact that although all this effort has been made, there is an important group of distributed generation blocks that have not been able to put diesel to replace the affectations we have in the plants," he held.