Bolivia Stands in Solidarity With Cuba Over Power Outages

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October 19, 2024 Hour: 6:39 pm

The Bolivia’s Government expressed this Saturday its solidarity with Cuba over the blackouts that have occurred in recent hours on the island due to the disconnection of the national grid of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric, the largest in the country.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia expresses its solidarity with the people and the Government of the sister Republic of Cuba, for the energy situation it is experiencing,” states the Bolivia’s governmnet statement.

In addition, the Plurinational state rejected “the plans of ultra-right dissident groups that, from abroad, seek to take advantage of this situation to destabilize the government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and convulse the country”.

The ministry also called on the governments and peoples of the world to insist on compliance with the more than twenty resolutions, adopted in more than two decades at the United Nations, which call for the end of the US trade economic blockade against Cuba.

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia expresa su solidaridad con el pueblo y el Gobierno de la hermana República de Cuba, por la situación energética que atraviesa.
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The diplomatic portfolio stated that the US blockade is the cause of the “anguish and suffering of the Cuban people.”

Cuba face another nationwide blackout this Saturday after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN) failed. The SEN collapsed due to a malfunction at the Guiteras thermoelectric plant, one of the country’s main power generators, causing a total power outage.

The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) also expressed their support for the people and government of Cuba in the face of the current energy crisis, Attributing it to the economic war and sanctions imposed by the US.

In their statement, they denounced the unilateral coercive measures and blockade as cruel and inhuman, stressing that these actions seek to affect the well-being of Cubans.