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CUBA
Minister in charge of energy suffers a blackout
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - 5 July (Guillermo
Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Yadira García
Vera, the minister of Basic Industry, was
participating in a meeting on Cuba's ongoing
electrical shortage when the lights went
out, an occurrence she had promised to prevent.
Sources close to the local committee of
the Communist Party said that embarrassed
party officials offered their apologies
to the minister after the blackout June
23 at the theater of the Central University.
Power was restored when an emergency generator
was put into service.
That evening, the minister experienced
another power shortage at a government security
center where she was staying. She was then
taken to the Granjita tourism area where
emergency generators guarantee a continuous
flow of electricity.
García Vera was named Basic Industry
minister last summer after Marcos Portal
was forced to resign after a five-month
energy crisis which the new minister promised
to resolve.
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