Oil-Short Cuba Plans to Slash Bus Service
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY —
Cubaa is cutting bus service in half in Havana in its latest belt-tightening move to try to cope with an estimated 90% drop in trade with the former Soviet Bloc, including oil imports.
The cut, which takes effect next year, will save on gasoline, tires and spare parts for Cuba’s aging fleet of Hungarian buses, the newspaper of Cuba’s ruling Communist Party reported Wednesday.
The plan follows a series of austerity measures taken to deal with Cuba’s worst economic crisis since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
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