Havana (EFE).- The United Nations has been unable to effectively distribute nearly 20,000 tons of food in Cuba due the fuel shortage caused by the United States’ oil embargo, EFE confirmed through various sources.
The logistical challenge has coincided with an increase in need because of Washington’s maximum pressure policy, in effect since January, which has exacerbated the island’s severe energy, economic, and social crisis.
Several anonymous sources familiar with the situation explained to EFE that the World Food Programme currently has 11,000 tons of food and nutritional supplements stuck in the Cuban ports of Mariel (west) and Santiago de Cuba (east).
Other UN agencies, including UNICEF and UNDP, have several dozen containers in those same ports, and have managed to unload and distribute them at an extremely slow pace.
They also noted that the WFP has over 8,000 tons of staple foods in warehouses across the country.
