Havana, Nov 11 (ACN) Cuban young lady Marisleidys Núñez, a citizen of the Pilon town—hardly hit by hurricane Rafael—said that she thought to have seen everything after hurricane Denis affected her town in 2020. But the recent quakes changed her opinion after she saw her home collapse.

Cuba is living nowadays challenging days to the disastrous impacts that, in just a few days, have caused two hurricanes and now strong earthquakes in the East, as if the serious electro-energy situation and the tightened and omnipresent U.S. blockade that intends to choke it were not enough.

Artemisa, the province most affected by the passage of Hurricane Rafael, has today in its electrical substation power from the national system, as a result of the work to recover the networks damaged by the meteor last Wednesday.

Around 300 aftershocks, 15 of them perceptible, were registered in the central-eastern region of Cuba, informed Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of the National Seismological Service of the National Center for Seismological Research (Cnais by its Spanish acronym).

During last night and until the early hours of this morning, a working commission sent by the highest leadership of the country exchanged with authorities and residents, and verified part of the damage caused by the strong earthquakes of Sunday in several municipalities of the province of Granma.

A Venezuelan ship carrying 300 tons of medical supplies and construction materials arrived Sunday in this city, which Orlando Miguel Maneiro Gaspar, ambassador of the South American country to Cuba, described as an act of solidarity with the victims of recent destructive weather events in the eastern and western provinces of the island and conveyed a fraternal message from President Nicolás Maduro and his government to the Cuban citizens..

Following two destructive earthquakes that struck off southeastern Cuba, the top provincial authorities urged the population to comply with the measures and instructions designed to protect people’s lives.

Representatives of Cuban and Mexican scientific centers involved in sugar production signed a first-ever cooperation agreement to promote the exchange of sugarcane biological and genetic material, a highly valuable strategic item in both countries.

The province of Holguin contributes to the strengthening of the National Electroenergetic System (SEN), through a group of actions to transfer loads to other areas of eastern Cuba.

The 1st International Conference on Kiswahili, the most widely used language in the countries of the African Union, was opened today at the Havana Convention Center, as part of the activities of the International Fair of Havana, in order to deepen the knowledge of the Kiswahili language, the most widely used language in the countries of the African Union, and to expand its international relevance.

Cuban government authorities confirmed at a press conference that no loss of human lives has been reported so far following the passage of Hurricane Rafael through the western region of the country.

On its profiles on social networks, the Havana Electric Company reported that work is continuing to address the damage caused by Hurricane Rafael in the electrical infrastructure of the territory.

Cuba issued a hurricane warning as Rafael approaches the southwestern Cuban coast as a Cat 1, with chance to increase intensity.

Cuba’s Transportation Ministry cancelled the service and operations in several international airports on Tuesday evening due to the threatening passage of tropical storm Rafael.

Cuba’s National Civil Defense authorities issued a tropical storm alert (watch) Tuesday at 5 pm local time, for the central regions of Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus, given the expected track of storm Rafael.