Private companies seek to import fuel amid Cuban energy crisis

The fuel crisis, already chronic due to the communist government's lack of foreign currency, has worsened significantly since the halt of Venezuelan oil deliveries and Washington's threats to impose tariffs on any country selling Cuba oil. On the island of about 9.6 million people, diesel sales are now suspended and gasoline sales are drastically rationed. "We bought an isotank... through a state-owned importer," the owner of a private company planning to import nearly 25,000 liters of diesel from...