Cuba maintains energy saving measures in the face of US blockade

Havana, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, urged that measures be maintained to deal with the fuel supply situation resulting from the tightening of the U.S. blockade, national television reported today.

At this week’s Council of Ministers meeting, which analyzed, among other issues, the behavior of the Cuban economy at the end of August, overdue accounts receivable and payable, and territorial and urban reorganization, the Cuban president called for ‘working according to the times we live in, without relaxation and with a sense of savings.

He also urged not to stop as much as possible prioritized programs such as food production, housing, exports, computerization of society, import substitution, tourism, and issues related to renewable energy sources, transportation and national production.

It is true that we have had to paralyze some activities, others we have had to slow them down, but we must take advantage of this workforce to provide maintenance, preserve equipment, prepare workshops for when the situation returns to normal to have all the capabilities and potentialities ready, he said.

Written by Radio Grito de Baire