However, local difficulties in electricity supply, including outages, persist.
According to AFP, the largest thermal power plant in Cuba, Antonio Guiteras, located approximately 100 km from Havana and the most important source of electricity supply in Cuba, remains closed. It was turned off after a failure on Thursday.
Increase in fuel prices in Cuba
On Friday, the authorities announced a significant, almost 100 percent. fuel price increases, but gas stations remain closed and it is not known when they will start selling at new prices.
According to the Associated Press, information boards at some gas stations in Havana indicate that the price of premium gasoline has increased (converted) from $1.30 US to $2 per liter, the price of regular gasoline has increased from $0.95 to $1.80. and the price of a liter of diesel fuel jumped from $1.10 to $2 per liter.
According to AP, the price of a liter of gasoline on the black market ranges from $8 to $10. per liter, which makes it unavailable to most Cubans. The energy crisis on the island is intensifying after the suspension of oil supplies from Venezuela and the blockade imposed by Washington.
The last fuel delivery was approx. 700 thousand. barrels of oil delivered by the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the end of March. However, these supplies were exhausted in early May and the tanks are now empty. Residents of the capital Havana and other cities are loudly demonstrating their dissatisfaction with the current situation, taking to the streets and loudly banging pots and pans.
