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Visitors included British MP Jeremy Corbyn, Colombian Sen. Clara López, Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias, and US labour leader Chris Smalls. The popular Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap also participated.
The energy embargo imposed by US President Donald Trump in late January to bring pressure for a change in the island’s political model has compounded five years of profound economic crisis stemming from the paralysis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and previous US sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines Argelio Abad Vigo last week said the country has gone three months without receiving supplies of diesel, fuel oil, gasoline, jet fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, all of which are vital for the economy and electricity generation. Cuba produces barely 40 per cent of the fuel it needs.
Meanwhile, a Hong Kong-flagged vessel that was reportedly carrying 200,000 barrels of diesel from Russia to Cuba has instead docked in Venezuela, according to MarineTraffic, a project that tracks the movement of vessels around the globe using publicly available data.
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