Mexico City. Cuba is in negotiations with other governments, including Mexico, to define the type of support that the island can receive to face the energy crisis that was experienced for five continuous days, said the Cuban ambassador in our country, Marcos Rodríguez Costa.
In a press conference at the headquarters of the Cuban embassy in our country, the diplomat said that he does not have details if the Vilma ship, with his nation’s flag, would have left the Mexican port of Pajaritos, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, with 400 thousand barrels of oil, as part of the supplies necessary to counteract the electrical emergency.
He stated that, to a large extent, this emergency experienced in recent days has as its origin the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed more than six decades ago by the United States government.
In that sense, the ambassador stressed that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, for the thirty-second time, the General Assembly of the United Nations will discuss and rule on the blockade, and considered that, as has been done in each of those debates, the majority of the States Parties will declare themselves in favor of its lifting.
“I think this discussion has a very interesting moment, a moment that will be a call to President (Joe) Biden so that he can issue executive orders to lift aspects of the blockade,” he emphasized.
The representative of Havana in Mexico highlighted that another interesting situation is that the discussion in the UN General Assembly will also coincide in that in the coming days the presidential election in the United States will be defined.
Faced with this, he called on the winning candidate (either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump) to lift the blockade, which daily costs Cuba $13 million in losses.
“One of the main calls I would make to whichever of the two wins is to lift the blockade. We believe that this is precisely what the blockade has to do. When (former President Barak) Obama executive orders were signed, therefore there are things that presidents can do that can loosen the blockade and remove Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Regardless of the outcome of the elections in the United States, which is an issue for the American people, Cuba asks and demands that the international community lift the blockade.”
The ambassador thanked on behalf of his government the support that both Mexico and other countries, such as Venezuela and Colombia, have offered in the face of the energy crisis.
“As our president (Miguel Díaz-Canel), the (Foreign Affairs) Minister Bruno (Rodríguez) and President Claudia Sheinbaum have expressed… we deeply appreciate not only Mexico, but a group of important countries that have expressed their willingness to help Cuba in this difficult time we are facing. I do not have details (of the ship), it is precisely that the Cuban government is in negotiations with Mexico, with Colombia, with Venezuela, with a large group of countries to be able to achieve this aid,” he stressed.
Rodríguez Costa said that Cuba suffered for five days last week “a massive disconnection of the electro-energy system, which has been caused first of all by the lack of fuel and above all by the breakdowns and obsolescence of many of our electricity generation plants.” .
This, he stressed, is a direct example of the political economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States government has established for more than six decades.
This measure, “which violates the human rights of Cubans,” has impacted the electricity generation system since the island has difficulties obtaining fuel, carrying out transactions and even payments to suppliers through the banking system, complications in acquiring the parts necessary for your electro-energy system, among others.
The ambassador assured that the situation that left Cuba in total darkness for several days has improved.
“It has been an extraordinary effort by more than 50,000 workers in our electrical energy system and all of our people, who with great resilience helped and cooperated in every possible way to resolve this situation, which today is much better and we believe that we are going to completely get out of it.”
The energy emergency, he said, also coincided with the passage of Hurricane Oscar, which has impacted eastern Cuba.
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