Mexico supplies 112 tons of electrical equipment and materials to Cuban government

‌Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Mexico Thousands of items and specialized equipment worth about 12.8 million pesos (711,552 U.S. dollars) were removed from its facilities and donated to the Cuban governmentsome media revealed Latina Mexican news portal based in the United States.

‌The state-owned company did it The first batch of supplies was delivered to help the Miguel Díaz-Canel government after Hurricane Ian affected the island September 27, 2022.

‌However, five months later, when electricity service was restored across the island, CFE delivers two new shipments and justified by the continued existence of the state of emergency.

The three donations included 112 tons of equipment and more than 5,500 spare parts.

According to Latinus, the CFE sent a document requested through Transparency on February 27. Valves worth 4.7 million Mexican pesos from the Adolfo López Mateos thermal power plant were shipped to Central Antonio Guitar de Matanzas.

Two months later, on April 21, CFE made a new donation from the same plant in Tuxpan, Veracruz. 1000 square meters of metal covers, 16 items including regulators, gates, industrial switches, hydrogen coolers, etc.all worth 482,300 Mexican pesos.

In addition to transporting goods, Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission sends 16 experts to Cuba to help restore power service after Hurricane Ian. According to several reports from the CFE, the workers traveled to the island on September 28-29, 2022, and most returned to Mexico on October 10.

The document also revealed A total of 16 flights transported the 112 tons and 5,500 items, estimated to be worth 7.6 million pesos.: 69,000 meters of cables valued at P3.5 million and 9,606 pole insulators with an estimated value of P3.2 million.

The CFE board said in its report that the material was not “indispensable” and its delivery would not affect the system.

‌CFE treated these electricity supplies as donations to ENERGOIMPORT, a company affiliated with the Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines.. Thus, he avoided the US commercial and financial embargo against Havana. In recent years, European and North American power companies have stopped doing business with ENERGOIMPORT for fear of sanctions.

Cuba’s power plants are more than 35 years old and have reached the end of their useful life.

In a recent article, Jorge Piñón, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Energy Program at the University of Texas, argued that Published in Cuban Diary “There is no short-term patch solution. A complete recapitalization of the system is the only solution, and the Cuban (government) does not have what it takes for that: time (three to five years) and money (five to eight trillion dollars)”, he stressed.