A month without liquefied gas in Cuba: blackouts, fires, and no explanation.
The population has been without access to the service since early March. The government remains silent while complaints and despair mount.
The Liquefied Gas Company announced on March 3 that distribution of the product was suspended due to a shortage and that service would resume after the next import. Since then, there has been no official update.
The lack of information, coupled with constant power outages, has put thousands of families in a critical situation. On social media and state media such as cubadebateThe comments reflect the growing discontent: “There's no gas, there's no electricity, what do you cook with?” asks one user. Another comments ironically: “We'll have to take advantage of May Day to cook before the parade ends.”
Cooking has become a luxury
In many parts of the country, electric stoves are no longer a solution. With power outages lasting up to 12 hours in several provinces, the use of firewood and charcoal has returned to patios and rooftops as a last resort.
For those living in buildings, single elderly people, or people with reduced mobility, the situation is even more dire. Maritza Leal, 73, wrote in an official post: "I can't walk, I haven't shopped since November, and no one has told me my schedule."
The most worriedcupFor many, it is not just the lack of the product, but the lack of communication. Cupet Neither the Ministry of Energy and Mines has provided a clear statement on when gas distribution will resume. The word "temporary" in the initial announcement has, in practice, become an indefinite suspension.
The population demands clarity
The public outcry has not diminished. Each institutional publication receives dozens of comments asking the same thing: When are the bullets coming out? Where is the gas? Why isn't there any information?
Even those who try to communicate through formal channels say they receive no response. “What's happening is abusive,” wrote one user who has been without gas for two months. Another added: “There's no light to cook with electricity, and there's no gas either. What's left?”
Meanwhile, rumors are growing about possible changes in payment or distribution methods. Although the company has denied any intention to sell gas in freely convertible currency, the lack of transparency fuels mistrust.
An ignored basic need
For a large part of the Cuban population, liquefied natural gas is the primary source of cooking fuel. Its absence, amid a deepening economic crisis, has fueled social unrest.
Food shortages were already critical. Now, many families are struggling not only to find food, but also how to prepare it. The silence of the authorities has become yet another obstacle to daily life.
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39 comments
Well, what about those who haven't taken office since October, November, and December, and who haven't given any answers to the population? But the leaders of this country don't care about the population, and excuse me, you can't trust anyone anymore. Cubans will never, ever have development, because we're going backwards every day. Cuba will never have development. That's sad and painful after 67 years of revolution.
Not a month. A year for the state without picking up a living on the street for 55.000 and 60.000 and whatever you want. We, the poor, will be left with firewood until the bosses want it.
Manipulation of information is not only when it is DISTORTED, when an issue so important to people's daily lives is ignored or overlooked, information is ALSO MANIPULATED.
The OFFICIAL channels, as they are called, ARE TOTALLY MUTE INTO THE SITUATION WITH liquefied gas, generating additional costs in the daily expenses of the people, having to resort to consuming electricity (for those who can afford it), coal (prices through the roof), or another way of generating heat for cooking.
With so much misinformation, people no longer know what to believe or think about it, generating uncertainty and worry.cupaction, growing every day.
To this must be added the rising cost of all essential products.
All media are at your disposal 24/7.
USE THEM TO INFORM THE PEOPLE.
REMEMBER THAT EVERY PUBLIC OFFICER, AT ANY LEVEL, SHOULD KNOW THAT, FIRST OF ALL…
HE IS A SERVANT TO THE PEOPLE
I want to apologize to anyone who reads the above for not including my name.
My name is Jose R Gutierrez Glez and I live in Cuba.
One must say what one feels BY SHOWING THEIR FACE.
GREETINGS, JOSE
You fell short on Alamar, since February 25th, the gas hasn't come in. 55 days.
This is beyond words. It is abusive, and what our elderly and sick people face, and in general, the people have no electricity and no gas. How can you cook in Cuba? It is not the whole world, where a sack of coal costs 1500 pesos and lasts less than a week.
The problem is that here in Havana it is very difficult to cook with firewood, there is none either, but you also bother and almost suffocate your neighbors.
They don't even respect the contracts. We have an agreement with that company where they are responsible for maintaining the supply of the product in other places. They already have a lawsuit for breach of contract and damages.
I completely agree with this article. I think the public should have been given an explanation about this situation, which is causing a lot of hardship.
It will be a month in Havana, since in the East we have been cooking with charcoal for several months now. Do your research before publishing.
In Cueto once a year 😡😥this has no name why did they sell us the cylinders if there is no way to fill them cooking with firewood in the 21st century he snores the mango 😡😡😡
This is too much. Since December, gas hasn't been supplied to Jaguey Grande. Electricity is limited to one to two hours a day. What they're doing to this municipality is abusive, but in reality, we're to blame for living like this.
The lack of information isn't just about LPG. It also happens with gasoline, at least in the provinces. In six months, they've only offered the ticket option once or twice. But no one has said anything through any means, not even when the delivery will improve.
With the greatest respect, it is gas, water, electricity, bread, and children do not understand. We have to invent so they can eat. Anyone gets stressed with this situation.
like a month
We've been without gas and decorative balloons for 4 months. Please don't tell any more lies.
?like 1 month. The last time I got gas in Santa Fe beach was on January 5th and according to the cycle it hasn't come back on.
Nor does the government say it will even open a point where they can sell you coal at an affordable price. Only human beings know the work and sacrifice that goes into it.
I wrote a comment and it didn't come out.
Why?
We have problems in all activities related to people.
For the elderly, the difficulties are greater.
To give an example, before everything we're going through, we old folks were sold a chocolate powder for breakfast at a modest price, and now they're selling it for 350.00 pesos, free of charge at the grocery stores.
The most common retirement pension is 1528.00 pesos.
All prices are exorbitant, and the government's offers for the ration book are getting smaller and smaller.
Everything has a problem and no solution is in sight.
Many promises but no effective responses are in sight.
Urgent: We need information on the distribution and service of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the transparency and honesty the people need to know. The question is, will this much-needed service for customers be restored? There are many comments and speculations, but none from the relevant institutions offer any hope for the distribution of LNG.
nor post comments
It's all bad news, better not say anything.
What they don't want is to help the population! Hey, let's turn on the gas in the streets. The pipes were buried years ago and everything was forgotten!
We have no help from anyone or anything
Not even the state wants to report one more lie anymore.
Error in time is not a month as they say without the gas from the bullet, it's already 3 months and we're going for more.
They should all leave. They're the ones who should emigrate, not the people. Throughout the world, the president owes his services to the people, not the other way around.
Here in Alamar, liquefied gas hasn't been delivered for three months. It's an abuse.
It's not worth leaving any comments.
It's not going to change any situation and... well, we already know what can happen.
The Cuban state asks for patience and resistance, but how and until when?
This is a show of respect for the population
Incompetence... is the word of the more than 3000 or more people who belong to the government of this country
It will be a month in Havana or other provinces. I live in the municipality of Urbano Noris, Holguín province, and we haven't received liquefied natural gas since September 2024. It has arrived on a few occasions, but it doesn't meet the population's needs, so most of us continue to wait.
Every time something is said about liquefied gas, it's done in the singular, as if Havana were all of Cuba, since in the east we haven't had gas since December, and the government hasn't said anything new.
My love, don't talk about me in Havana anymore, that was before, I live in Havana and the last one
The first time I took the gas was on December 26th
What do you think?
Nothing, every day that passes they give another twist to the Cuban's patience.
The government has ignored the people. They're not responding to anything. The blackouts have already continued, and there's no sign of improvement. Gas is out, complete silence. They haven't had bread in over four days... and our leaders are spending money and living without a care.cupactions blaming everything and everyone for their ineffectiveness.
One month!!!!!!!, you have to have no shame, there are those who haven't received electricity since January, after jumping several months before, in Upper Havana they make bonfires and the neighbors who don't have any electricity (the vast majority) ask for favors and why continue, the misery and need are shameful
total agreement with the focus of this work is no longer just what the vast majority of Cubans are going to eat, that their salary and ridiculous withdrawals are barely enough to access a few foods, but how they can prepare them, given the number and prolonged duration of blackouts and the lack of liquefied gas, which in my case since December 2024 was the last time I had access to it and as well stated, the worst thing is the total lack of information that has become very common in the face of each of the many serious problems that are accumulating and becoming endemic and the worst thing is that the government's speech does not show the seriousness of the situation or the incomprehensible nature of each explanation for each of the serious problems we face today and that I doubt that those responsible for responding to actions, possible terms, etc. are suffering it together with their families, which creates an environment of helplessness and hopelessness in the majority of the population.
In Santa Cruz, a truck arrived with a quantity of gas bullets by magic on the afternoon of April 15, around 100, and those of us who have an appointment and were not there asked when they would continue the delivery and they could not answer, meaning they do not know where the shipment came from or when more will arrive.
It seems we have no government, they say nothing, they resolve nothing, they clarify nothing and it gets worse every day.
Tie up your pants and prepare for a skull. Cubans with anger are dangerous.