Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and president of the country, visited today the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna thermoelectric power plant (CTE by its Spanish acronym), in Mayabeque province, to review the work being done to recover its power.

On September 29, 1962, the Council of Ministers of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba issued a statement in response to a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress authorizing President John F. Kennedy to use arms against the island if it extended subversive or aggressive activities to any part of the Western Hemisphere and created a military capacity of external support that threatened the security of the United States.

The fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) are indispensable in difficult hours, said Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Party's Central Committee and president of the country, today.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, arrived on Wednesday in the province of Artemisa to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Ian as it passed through the western part of the country.

The Cuban transport ministry ( MITRANS) informed that taking into account the improvement of meteorological conditions, national and international transportation services will be reestablished throughout the country.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited areas worst hit by Hurricane Ian in the province of Pinar del Río, where the weather event reached Category 3 and caused great damage to agriculture, houses and facilities, in addition to triggering power outages.

The center of Hurricane Ian was estimated at nine o'clock this Tuesday morning at 22.8 degrees North latitude and 83.6 degrees West longitude, over the northern coast of Pinar del Río, near Puerto Esperanza, with maximum sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour and a minimum central pressure of 950 hectoPascal.

Preliminary reports on the passage of category-3 hurricane Ian on the province of Pinar del Rio say that the storm has inflicted more noticeable damage in homes and the electric grid.

Hurricane Ian, category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall at 3:25 in the morning by La Coloma, located in the head municipality of Pinar del Río and in the southern portion of the province.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Cuba’s National Civil Defense Authority issued a hurricane warning for the western provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa and the Isle of Youth municipality in the face of category II hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian has gained enough intensity and became a category II storm moving towards western Cuba, where it is expected to make landfall at early hours Tuesday at a point between the localities of San Juan y Martinez and Coloma in western Pinar del Rio province.

Over 27 thousand 300 citizens have been evacuated in eastern Pinar del Rio province as a measure to preserve human lives as hurricane Ian approaches that Cuban territory on Monday evening.

Evacuation of citizens in risky areas in the face of the impact of hurricane Ian is one of the measures adopted by Havana authorities to preserve human lives.

(ACN) Workers of the Hydraulic Resources of Isle of Youth are unblocking drainages around the island to avoid floodings from the heavy rains associated with Hurricane Ian that is moving in the vicinity.