English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
There are cars that come with three tanks in the trunk, because they know the pump attendant , and they fill up to 300 liters to resell later. 14ymedio, José Lassa, Havana, 11 December 2024 — The nearby Riviera movie theater, in the middle of the Havana Film Festival, was deserted on Tuesday. The real … Continue reading “The Art of Organizing Gas Station Lines in Cuba”
“When I got to the service center I had 300 cars ahead of me” 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 29 August 2024 — Havana seems to have returned to the worst days of the fuel crisis. Piled up and bored, since the beginning of the week the drivers wait daily for hours in line and … Continue reading “The Fuel Crisis in Cuba Gets Worse and the Lines Lengthen at the Hard Currency Gas Stations”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, May 23, 2024 — For three days, the lines have returned to the gas stations in Havana, where vehicles once again occupy more than five blocks, in an image that has not been seen for months . This Thursday, in two of the normally busiest establishments in El Vedado, 25 … Continue reading “Without Russian Oil and With Less From Venezuela, the Lines Return to Cuba’s Gas Stations”
14ymedio, Havana, 28 February 2024 After being postponed due to an alleged cyber attack on the state financial company Cimex, two days before the dismissal of the Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil Fernández, the new fuel prices, public transport and electricity rates will go into effect on March 1. Havana residents were trying to refuel … Continue reading “Gas Stations Closed and Others With Long Lines Before the New Prices of March 1”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 27 May 2022 — A new fuel crisis looms over the country, judging by the long lines at numerous gas stations that Havana woke up to this Friday. In the Cupet station at San Rafael and Infanta, a line of vehicles that occupied a block and a half was waiting … Continue reading “Once Again, Long Lines at Gas Stations and Fuel Shortages in Cuba”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 22 March 2022 — The control of the sale of fuel in Havana began this Tuesday without prior notice. As this newspaper had anticipated, the authorities planned to extend the regulation established in Matanzas from Sunday to the entire Island, but it has been sooner than the employees themselves expected. A sign surprised customers … Continue reading “Twenty Liters of Gas per Vehicle and Long Lines at Gas Stations in Havana”
Through the messaging app, this teacher by profession was in charge of making the daily list of buyers and establishing strict instructions 14ymedio, Havana, 25 December 2024 — Before the government acknowledged the magnitude of the energy crisis in the country – through the mouth of Minister Vicente de la O Levy the first time, in March, … Continue reading “Cuban Faces 2024: Esther Lilian Pérez Trujillo, the Big Shot of Havana’s Gas Stations”
Pedro Garce Fights Against ’Imperialism’ and the Bureaucracy of Those ’From Above’ 14ymedio, Havana, 23 December 2024 — Every time he starts writing in his Telegram group, Pedro Garce, organizer of the lines for fuel in El Tángana and two other gas stations in the municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, makes customers tremble. For … Continue reading “The Despair of the Line Manager for More Than 6,000 Gas Station Customers in Havana”
The company imposes a series of measures on gas stations, which will not be adopted in the unlikely event that there is enough fuel 14ymedio, Havana, 17 November 2024 — Following the experience of the Tángana gas station, located in El Vedado (Havana), the financial company Cimex, Cuba Petróleo (Cupet), the police and other local … Continue reading “Cupet Authorizes the Purchase of 20 Liters for Generators at the Plaza de la Revolución Gas Stations in Havana”
14ymedio, Havana, February 27, 2024 — Esther Pérez Trujillo, who is entrusted by the government of Guanabacoa with the organization of the lines at the gas stations of that Havana municipality, does not like the new rules for the distribution of fuel. And she doesn’t hide it. This Tuesday, in one of the Telegram groups … Continue reading “At a Gas Station in Havana, Esther’s Fans Support Her in Her Criticism of the New Fuel Regulations”
14ymedio, Havana, January 28, 2024 — The sale of fuel has become a picturesque business in the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa but, above all, an illegal trade that, in plain view, has grown. This Saturday, a “Cupet house” was dismantled by State Security and the police. An individual, identified as Ángel, was engaged in the … Continue reading “Cuban Police Dismantle an Illegal Sale of Fuel a Few Steps From a Gas Station”
14ymedio, Havana, 20 January 2024 — “They are observing,” was the suspicious comment of Esther, who uses Telegram to take charge of organizing the line to buy fuel in the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa, after this newspaper denounced the multiple irregularities of the process. Since then, the “boss” of the gas stations has launched a … Continue reading “Hanging Out With Esther, the Boss of the Guanabacoa Gas Stations in Havana”
14ymedio, Havana, 11 January 2024 — While a group of Havana residents observe him, a senior officer of the Armed Forces parks his motorcycle next to a pump at the Los Paraguas Service Center in Guanabacoa. He doesn’t waste time on questions and goes directly to the gas station attendant. After a very brief conversation, and before the … Continue reading “At the Gas Stations in Guanabacoa, Cuba, Women Rule, and Not Always by Good Means”
14ymedio, Pedro Espinosa and Juan Matos, Camajuaní/Manzanillo | 2 January 2024 — The impacts of the new macro-economic readjustment measures that the government announced at the end of the year have yet to be felt at Cuban filling stations. During visits to several of the island’s gas stations, reporters from 14ymedio found that employees of … Continue reading “Cuban Gasoline Set to Rise to 200 Pesos a Liter, 250 for Diesel, while Service Stations Await the Go-Ahead”
14ymedio, Havana, 21 December 2023 — The faces of the drivers who were waiting this Thursday morning in the line in front of the San Rafael and Infanta gas station left no room for doubt: the feeling of helplessness was widespread. “Eight blocks long!” complained the drivers who were waiting in the hope of buying … Continue reading “Eight Blocks in Line, the Price To Get End-of-Year Gasoline in Cuba”
