革命国家でもメイデイ集会を控えるほどの燃料不足

　タイトルそのまま。キューバじゃ今年の5/1のメイデイパレードを燃料不足につき中止。

BBC Cuba cancels May Day parade because of fuel shortages 30 Apr 2023　By Henri Astier

「Cuba's communist government has cancelled Monday's traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages.

Every year hundreds of thousands of people are bussed in from across the island to fill Havana's Revolution Square on International Workers' Day.

It is the first time since the 1959 revolution that the celebrations have been cancelled for economic reasons.」

　1959年の革命以来、経済的理由で取りやめだなんて初めてのことという。プライドにかけてもやらないとダメな行事がこんな風になるほどきっつい状況らしい、というわけだ。

「Earlier this month, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Cuba was only receiving two-thirds of the fuel it needs, adding that suppliers were failing to fulfil contractual obligations.」

「Deliveries of higher quality crude from Venezuela, Cuba's largest provider of fuel, have dropped by 50% in recent years.

Analysts say Venezuela is experiencing severe problems itself and finds it increasingly difficult to subsidise its socialist ally.」

　ベネズエラからハイクオリティな油を購入する―はずが、そのベネズエラの生産量が減っているようで（そりゃそうだろう）。その点でも詰んでる。