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Chapeando: Fake voices

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I am not aware that the term exists, perhaps we invented it today. But we use that bilingual word of the title in our podcast to summarize the judgments about a method of lying or manipulating that usually appears on the networks, to feed uncertainties. We reproduce in this podcast audios that went viral during critical moments in the country, the first of them starring an alleged biologist who condemned the Cuban government’s strategy to face the COVID 19 epidemic as a massive crime.

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Nearly 79,000 customers without electricity in Puerto Rico, days after the impact of Fiona

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Some 79,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Saturday, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit the island, data showed.
After wreaking havoc in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Fiona turned north and hit eastern Canada on September 24, also leaving more than a third of Nova Scotia without power. Nova Scotia Power, a unit of Canadian energy company Emera Inc., said about 78,200 customers there were still without power as of early Thursday.

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Díaz-Canel recorre central termoeléctrica Ernesto Guevara, en Santa Cruz del Norte

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El presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, llegó esta mañana a la central termoeléctrica Ernesto Guevara, en Santa Cruz del Norte, provincia Mayabeque, donde se trabaja sin descanso para recuperar potencia en la generación que se aportará a la sincronización del sistema electroenergético nacional (SEN), informó la Presidencia en su cuenta en Twitter. Poco antes de la llegada del mandatario, la unidad 2 de esa CTE ya estaba aportando 23 MW a parte del SEN del occidente de Cuba.