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Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink

Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country’s energy minister said on Wednesday, as Havana ...

Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink
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Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country’s energy minister said on Wednesday, as Havana ...

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink, Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country’s energy minister said on Wednesday, as Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a US blockade that has strangled the island of fuel . “We have absolutely no fuel (oil), and absolutely no diesel,” the energy minister, Vicente de la O Levy, said on state media, adding that the national grid was in a “critical” state. “We have no reserves.” Fuel oil is a product derived from crude oil distillation used to generate heat or power. Continue reading…

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