The Second Digital Transition Fair (FETDI) opened in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba aiming at developing digital capabilities through the use of innovative IT applications such as Artificial Intelligence.

The solution of all electrical damages caused by earthquakes in eastern Cuba, and the reconnection of the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio to the national electricity system (SEN) stand out today among the advances in the recovery of the sector, after the recent natural phenomena in both sides of the country.

After taking some measurements for the study of the current depth of the access channel to the western port of Batabano, work will be carried out today to prepare the dredging project for the areas whose depths were modified by the accumulation of sediments due to the passage of Hurricane Rafael.

The recovery of electricity service and the resumption of classes in general and university education were evaluated in the Provincial Defense Council (CDP) which held a videoconference session on Monday night.

The eastern Cuban city of Holguin will host Nov. 28-29 the Expoambiente 2024 event dedicated to socialize the achievements in the protection of the environment from community experiences developed in eastern Cuba.

'Cuba commemorated the 20th anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and head of foreign relations, described as a tireless fighter for the inalienable rights of his people.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Cuban foreign minister, congratulated todaythe Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba on its 60th anniversary of its creation.

 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.