Resolution 155/2026

Resolution 155/2026 is the Ministry of Finance and Prices decree, effective 16 July 2026, that lifted Cuba's 10kg bottled cooking-gas tariff from 213 to 350 Cuban pesos, a 64% rise touching 1,707,763 contracted GLP customers. State media attributed the increase to the intensifying US blockade rather than to the government's own supply arrangements.

The decree landed three days after the largest single-day wave of new US sanctions on Cuban entities under Executive Order 14404, but the underlying fuel shortage predates that designation round: Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy confirmed on 13 May 2026 that Venezuelan crude supply had been interrupted since November 2025, well before the 13 July sanctions wave, leaving domestic production meeting only a fraction of national demand.

The decree is the first cost-of-living measure of the current sanctions wave to land directly on ordinary households rather than on state institutions, following a run of Executive Order 14404 designations aimed at ministries, security services and state enterprises. The precise weighting between blockade effects and pre-existing supply failure was not established in this research pass.