Solutions despite the energy situation
- Written by Yamila Pupo Otero
- Published in Holguin
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The current fuel deficit in the country is faced in Holguín with a real vision far from catastrophism based on energy saving policies that seek solutions and alternatives to minimize the effects on the main production and service processes, with special emphasis on guaranteeing public transportation and food distribution for the basic basket and the markets that commercialize products released without subsidies, where there was an improvement and stability in the supply of very depressed meat products in the first quarter of the year.
Overcoming this stage is a challenge assumed by Holguín with the sustainability of the main lines that contribute to its economic growth and the country as the production of nickel, sugar and the development of tourism and colossal hydraulic works with regional impact such as those of the East-West Transfer so necessary to promote the development of agriculture and stabilize and shorten the cycles of water supply to the population.
Everyday life runs normally in homes with no impact on the electricity supply and the population rewards this benefit by reducing energy consumption at peak times, and adapts to change with a creative and supportive action in which social discipline, common sense and confidence prevail to reverse with collective effort such a complex situation aggravated by the new escalation of aggressions of the administration of Donald Trump to economically suffocate the country and cause popular discontent.
Of course, the low availability of diesel slows down productive activities and essential services in the country and impacts on the stability of its growth, but it does not mean being back in the special period because today the scenario of the diversification of the Cuban economy in comparison with the 1990s is very different and trade links with countries of the European Union, Russia, China and Venezuela are expanding, to mention a few.
The population trusts in the Government's willingness to facilitate and increase the 200 or so foreign investment businesses currently active in strategic sectors such as Agriculture, Food Industry and Transport; in the commercial opportunities of the Special Maritime Development Zone; in the policies aimed at boosting exports; in substituting imports and modernizing the technological infrastructure; in the sustained growth of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry and of tourism with a flow of visitors of more than four million a year; in the contribution of medical services abroad and the strengthening of the state company.
Reasons that transmit security and confidence to overcome this complex but transformable stage. /Radio Angulo