Posted on 06/26/2016 9:07:07 PM PDT by fella
Blackouts on the Island Have Lasted Between Four and Eight Hours
Raúl Castro has decided to implement austerity measures in Cuba as the oil the Venezuelan government has been sending over the past years has decreased and is no longer sufficient to cover for public sector expenses.
According to news outlet Cubanet, island officials are trying to fight the fuel deficit by reducing consumption of oil and electricity by 20 percent, which means a partial paralyzing of production.
The measure has starting to circulate this week in the ministeries and companies linked to production. The measures have included shutting workers kitchens where they still exist, the reduction of the work day from eight to five hours a day, the suspension of Saturday workdays and collective summer vacations.
These measures are similar to those taken by Nicolás Maduros adminstration, as the Venezuelan government has also implemented electricity rationing and reduced working hours in the public sector.
According to Cubanet, Cuba has started to feel the effects of an energy crisis associated with the reduction of oil imports coming from Venezuela and controls over fuel for government cars.
The government hasnt been the only one effected. Cuban neighborhoods have started experiencing blackout days lasting between four and eight hours.
You can add the persistence and depth of scarcity in the retail market to the shortage of fuel. This has happened in both establishments that sell in the local currencies, including the agricultural one, and those who sell in dollars. This has raised fear in the population of a return to a crisis period similar to that of the 90s, provoked by the debacle of socialism in Eastern Europe.
The Cuban economy no longer fully depends on Venezuela for fuel, but it is the largest contributor of oil and therefore, one of its largest commercial partners. Whether Cuba falls back into an economic and energy crisis very much depends on the immediate future of Venezuela.
their new bestie will save them. barack obama, friend of dictators everywhere.
It is ironic that as oil prices fall, socialist countries are hardest hit!
While everyone else benefits from lower oil prices, those that built their societies on other peoples’ money are falling apart!
GOOD!....would it take 24...48 hours...a week..a month?....to figure out something is wrong...Didn't Obama just set them free???...He did the middleast...What could go wrong???.../s
Obama to the rescue. How long will it take him I wonder?
Let me get this right: Venezuela is subsidizing Cuba.
Welfare for a welfare state.
Why doesn’t Castro sign an executive order requiring electricity to stay on at adequate levels 24 hours per day?
I was also wondering when the Obungler would bail them out?
To paraphrase Lady Thatcher, sooner or later you run out of other peoples oil.
It has been for at least a decade.
Around the world, totalitarian governments are either subsidized, run off of oil money, or die off.
They are, to use the current word “unsustainable”.
There are several states in our own NorthEast that Venezuela has been giving heating oil to.
Fits the template.
They have been for years, ever sine Hugo Chavez and his socialist henchmen took over in Venezuela.
Selling their fellow socialist country oil at way below market prices.
The we work, they eat will always fail when we refuse to work for them.
Easy fix. Build the Keystone Pipeline, and extend a portion of it to Cuba!
There you go. Jobs for illegal green card holders as an added advantage.
Maduro may wake up one day soon, and find the Cuban support forces departing.
Now, your just being selfish. "I'd Love to Change the World" by, Ten Years After. Literally the hippies pipe dream.
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