Cuba accuses US of high oil price responsibility

Cuba has accused the United States and other industrial countries of being responsible for the hike in oil prices.



Yesterday, Cuban representatives blasted the United States and other countries for the skyrocketing oil prices.



Cuba’s vice president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura accused these nations of siphoning natural resources from the developing world.



He told the UN General Assembly that a few countries in the industrialised North were behind the world food crisis, and hinted that the United States was in part responsible for historic oil price hikes.



Mr. Ventura said the rise in oil prices was the result of irrational consumption, strong speculation and imperial war adventures.



The Cuban official said a desperate search for new sources of energy was pushing what he called the criminal strategy driven by the United States government to transform grains and cereals into fuel.