If Cuba’s application to join the BRICS had created great expectation and hopes—among those who love and defend Cuba—-there are even more arguments and reasons in favor of this fair request now that the island is coping with both an electrical emergency and severe damages that tropical storm Oscar caused in the eastern provinces.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced on Tuesday that the number of fatal victims under the impact of storm Oscar increased to seven, after it hard hit Guantanamo as a Cat 1 hurricane.

The passage of storm Oscar as a Cat 1 hurricane on the eastern province of Guantanamo inflicted severe damage on the communication infrastructure particularly in the municipalities of Baracoa, Maisi, Imias and San Antonio del Sur, according to Cuba’s ETECSA Telecommunications Company.

The Cuban Electric Company announced on Tuesday afternoon, that the national power grid was fully synchronized at 2:44 local time, after days of big efforts to bring the island’s power system back on its feet.

The electric system in the province of Holguin is already recovered and with vitality in its main facilities and networks, after the total disconnection occurred in that system last Friday.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Party's Central Committee, informed on X that the National Defense Council was convened to analyze, at 11 a.m. today, the exceptional situation the country is experiencing.

More than my 400 megawatts are being served by the electricity network created at this time in the country, and about 70 % of the clients have this service, according to the information report issued by the Electric Company at 8:30 in the morning.

The People's Forum has published today a letter in The New York Times demanding that Joe Biden, president of the United States, reverse the harsh policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, during his last 90 days in office.

The energy situation in the country and the effects of Hurricane Oscar will be analyzed today at Mesa Redonda.

 The Civil Defense General Staff declared the normal situation for four of the five provinces of eastern Cuba, except for Guantanamo, which reports major damage by the passage of Hurricane Oscar, which then degraded to a tropical storm.

The Electrical Power Company reported in the six o'clock this morning that 70. 89% of customers in Cuba have electricity service.

Unit No. 4 of the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes thermoelectric power plant, in the central province of Cienfuegos, has been in the process of starting up for the last few hours, to join in the reestablishment of the National Electroenergy System (SEN).

The Cuban Writers and Artists Association (UNEAC by its Spanish acronym) ratified in a statement its firm conviction of being at the service of the Homeland and the vocation of social service of its members.

 -Call of the Young Communist League, student organizations and youth movements.

Still flooded and not allowing the passage to adjacent territories, due to the flooding of the Sabanalamar River that drowned the main town, San Antonio del Sur remained at midnight on Monday, where Hurricane Oscar, later downgraded to a tropical storm, left a toll of six dead.