Outrage is growing against Cupet for failing to fulfill its commitment to deliver 14,000 cylinders a day for 24 days.
14ymedio, Madrid, 17 June 2025 — After so many months of waiting, the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which began at the end of May when the government was finally able to pay to unload the ship that was waiting in the port of Santiago de Cuba, has ended in the blink of an eye. This Monday, the company Cuba Petróleo (Cupet) in the eastern province announced the suspension of the sale of LPG until more is available.
The population’s indignation has been major, provoking a quick response from the official press: an article in the newspaper Granma explaining the enormous effort made by workers throughout the island to get the cylinders to the population. “If the second ship arrives at the estimated time, all customers will receive one, and distribution will not be interrupted,” said Lucilo Sanchez, director of Trade and Supply of the state-owned company. Only a few hours later, Cupet announced the opposite.
The message had been broadcast on the Telegram platform of Santiago’s Cupet early in the morning and provoked numerous reactions, which reflected the discomfort of customers over the broken promise. “They opened their mouths to say that there was gas for 100% of the population. Now there’s no name for this, neither disrespect, nor liars… No, this has no qualification, because they have already surpassed themselves,” said one user. The vast majority protested that they had been guaranteed more days and more beneficiaries.
“They opened their mouths to say that there was gas for 100% of the population. Now there’s no name for this, neither disrespect, nor liars”
On May 27, when the distribution of LPG began, the director of the Territorial Division of Fuel Marketing, Lisset González Sardinas, said that “the organizational conditions for distribution and marketing were created” so that “coverage of one hundred percent over a 24-day period” was expected. The entire plan was detailed, which included the use of the Ticket application, for which 80 daily turns were to be released. “Its cl
