Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel toured the areas severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Oscar in eastern Guantanamo province.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who chairs the National Defense Council, highlighted the international solidarity with the situation in the island, as opposed to the inaction of the United States, which keeps in place its economic, commercial and financial blockade.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who chairs the National Defense Council, praised the efforts deployed by workers who managed to link up the National Power Grid (NPG) following its collapse Friday, ranging from the linemen to those who control and conduct the relevant processes.

Although Hurricane Oscar is already far from the island, the province of Guantanamo is still in a state of cyclonic alarm due to the floods caused by the weather event, whereas the surrounding region returned to normality and recovery efforts are under way in the affected areas.

China’s solidarity with Cuba’s current plight became manifest in the meeting that Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC), held with Li Shulei, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

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.