“A deficit of more than 2,000 MW is forecast for today during peak demand hours. This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs on any nation that supplies us with fuel,” the head of state declared.

“This Wednesday, for example, the amount of electricity generated in Cuba due to fuel shortages caused by this criminal blockade amounts to 1,100 MW. The best demonstration of what we are saying is the significant improvement in service during the month of April.

The arrival of just one fuel ship in a Cuban port, out of the minimum of eight needed each month, allowed us to reduce the deficit and, consequently, the blackouts, which, although they did not disappear entirely, were mitigated,” he added.

In recent days, US media outlets have expressed bewilderment at the heroic resistance of the Cuban people and the firmness and unwavering unity of our government. They have had to acknowledge that, despite the brutal measures of economic and energy strangulation, Cuba remains standing, admitting that the crisis is the result of a severe economic war and energy persecution.

“In short: what the spokespeople for the U.S. regime try to portray to the world as a direct consequence of mismanagement by the Cuban government is actually the result of a perverse plan intended to exacerbate the hardships and deprivations of the Cuban people.

Neither the blockade imposed more than six decades ago, nor the 243 tightened measures imposed by the previous Trump administration, could destroy the Revolution,” the president asserted. “We are strong as a nation, and resolute in facing the toughest challenges,” he affirmed.

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