Cubans queue for hours at gas stations, bus stops as fuel shortage strikes

September 13, 2019 - Havana, Cuba, Latin America - Cubans queued for hours at gas stations and bus stops today as an acute fuel shortage the government blames on U.S. sanctions started to bite. The government announced earlier this week that it would be rationing fuel to ensure basic services like hospitals this month as it had not been able to secure enough shipments. Regular shipments should resume in October, it assured, saying this was not a return to an economic depression like following the fall of the Soviet Union.