HAVANA: Russian oil firm Rosneft's CEO Igor Sechin met with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel late on Saturday (Mar 4), the island's leader said, amid an acute fuel shortage that has service stations temporarily shuttered and hours-long gasoline queues. Sechin told Diaz-Canel that, when it comes to issues
HAVANA: Russian oil firm Rosneft's CEO Igor Sechin met with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel late on Saturday , the island's leader said, amid an acute fuel shortage that has service stations temporarily shuttered and hours-long gasoline queues.
Several tweets on Cuba's Presidency account emphasized the good relations between the two countries, but did not specify the reason for the visit by the state-run oil firm's boss. Cuba's former leader Raul Castro has also flown to Caracas for the occasion, Cuban state-run media said. Hours-long lines for food, fuel and medicine have ravaged the island and contributed to a mass exodus of Cubans in the past year, many headed north to the United States.
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