Hurricane Idalia is moving away from the national territory and does not represent a danger for Cuba, so it was decided to move to the recovery phase in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Havana and the Special Municipality of the Isle of Youth, to starting at 11:00 today.
There is no bad weather for our peasants, they assure that these rains have sold like a glove.
Yusniel is 47 years old, and he has been working the land for a long time here on the CCS Gilberto Barcón property in Río Sequito. He says that there is a commitment that a goat does not jump with people. “Here we are going to sow rice, it is a good seed on the cliff, it cooks well and has good yields.”
They do not rest, they have put together a gang of men who are attached to the furrow, prepare the land, water seedbeds, tend to the animals and move on because there is no bad time for a peasant who knows that if man serves the land, it produces.
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Brigades of linemen work to restore electrical service in Pinar del Río, where the greatest damages have been reported after La Idalia. In the Río sequito community of the head municipality they already have the benefit.
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Yamilé Ramos Cordero, president of the Provincial Defense Council, came to the La Minerva neighborhood of the popular urban council of the San Juan y Martínez municipality. dissatisfactions, related to the insufficient distribution of resources such as mattresses and covers, for victims of Hurricane Ian and their concern for being relegated before the recent impact of Idalia.
Ramos Cordero reasoned about the magnitude of the losses, the impossibility of solving everything simultaneously and the need to prioritize vulnerable families, despite their disagreements they recognized that they have at least partially solved their most pressing shortcomings.
In Isabel Rubio in Guane, there are still areas with the passage interrupted by floods caused by the flooding of the Cuyaguateje River, and 50% of the electrical service is restored, the recovery will continue.
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The Municipal University Center (CUM) of Sandino in recovery work after the passage of Idalia through western Cuba.
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Juan Julio López Brito, lives on the banks of the San Juan River, says that the floods have never been so devastating after the dam was built, despite this he acknowledges that this time Idalia caused one of the largest in recent time.
Rincón Caliente is the name by which this neighborhood of the municipal seat of San Juan y Martínez is known, in which vulnerable people reside whose hardships have intensified by Idalia.
Yamilé Ramos Cordero, president of the Pinar del Río Provincial Defense Council, at the end of a brief tour of this community, reiterated the indication to adapt attention to people with social and economic disadvantages according to the particularities of each case.
He insisted on informing the population, explaining and discussing, from sensitivity and respect.
Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo and Vice President of the Provincial Defense Council Eumelín González Sánchez visited the Sandino municipality to verify the main effects on the territory and the actions being carried out as part of the recovery process.
In the semi-boarding XX Anniversary of the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, one of the 9 centers in the territory that has affected the roof, Perdomo Di-Lella insisted on the need to expedite the recovery efforts to start the 2023 school year on September 4. 2024.
Likewise, he was interested in the teaching coverage for the next school period and the resources available to the territory to solve the affectations in educational institutions.
At the Augusto César Sandino hospital, dialogue with the health authorities of the territory on the availability of medical supplies, professional coverage and the effects that the institution presents after the passage of Idalia.
Reporting Neilyn Zambrana Roque
