A man finishes putting fuel in his car’s tank during a fuel blackout in Havana, Cuba, on March 16, 2026. Ramon Espinosa/AP
Cuba’s energy and mines minister said on May 13 that the country has completely run out of diesel and heavy fuel oil, and that its power grid has entered a “critical” state, as Havana faces its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has strangled the island of fuel.
“We have absolutely no fuel [oil], and absolutely no diesel,” Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy told a news conference covered by Cuba’s state-run media. “We have no reserves.”
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