BY TYLER DURDEN
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President Trump’s pressure campaign on Cuba is gaining serious momentum as the Caribbean island’s energy crisis deepens, unleashing rampant fuel shortages and prolonged power blackouts. The government rolled out new conservation measures late Friday to preserve energy, but large parts of the economy are already imploding.
Bloomberg reports that Trump’s move to curb fuel shipments to Cuba is spilling over into the tourism sector, with energy shortages forcing two large beach resorts to shut down as early as this weekend.
Here’s more from the outlet:
At least two large beach resorts on Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of the Caribbean nation, will be closing as soon as this weekend due to gasoline shortages, employees reported Friday.
A worker at Mojito Cayo Coco said the resort was shutting down because there wasn’t enough fuel for employees to get to work. Instead, about 200 guests will be transferred to Sol Cayo Coco about 30 miles away.
The worker, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, blamed Trump’s sanctions and said many of his colleagues were losing their jobs. In more than two decades at the hotel, he said he’d seen temporary shutdowns for multiple hurricanes but never for non-weather-related disasters.
On Friday night, Cuba’s government warned that its entire tourism sector was under a “consolidation plan” amid fuel supply disruptions that are rocking the island’s economy.
Source:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cuba-shutters-beach-resorts-fuel-crisis-spreads-economy-wide