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From the Fraternidad neighborhood, in Mantilla: “What I experienced in a protest”

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Residents of the popular neighborhood of Fraternidad, which began this Thursday afternoon, gathered at the corner of Fernando and Morris to protest the blackout that we have had in the area since Monday afternoon, there, in Mantilla, which is my neighborhood, and all of Havana and the west, where Pinar del Río suffers the greatest burden of the disaster. Leaders of the Party and the municipal government, together with PNR officers, explained to everyone, with understanding and delicacy; They argued over and over again.

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Hurricane Ian affected 40 percent of base stations and 7 percent of telephone services in Cuba

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The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A (Etecsa) reported that recovery work continued with the execution of cleaning tasks, restoration of cables and more than 1,200 poles affected by the force of the winds and fallen trees. They pointed out that, after the passage of Hurricane Ian, more than 100,000 interrupted fixed services were registered, representing 15% of the total telephone lines of the five provinces that were under the influence of this meteorological event.

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10th of October Causeway

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The poet Eliseo Diego alluded to this Havana street as “the rather enormous roadway of Jesús del Monte.” That was the name of that road until in 1918 the Havana City Council agreed to the request of the Association of Cuban Revolutionary Emigrants to give it the new name in homage to the glorious day in which Carlos Manuel de Céspedes gave the cry of Independence or Death.Its old name was due to the very Cuban custom of calling uncultivated land, covered with trees and bushes, and, by extension, a sparsely populated area, “monte”.

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Torres Iríbar: “The greatest complaint must be addressed to those who have not contributed to the recovery”

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Given the recovery efforts that are taking place in Havana after the passage of Hurricane Ian and the recent protests that took place in some parts of the capital, Cubavisión Internacional spoke with Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, president of the Provincial Defense Council of Havana. It is said that the hurricane did not pass through Havana, what can you tell us about it?

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Mexican planes arrive in Cuba to contribute to the recovery after the passage of Ian

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Two planes from Mexico arrived in Cuba today with electrical equipment destined for the recovery of the Pinar del Río province, which was severely affected by the passage of category 3 Hurricane Ian on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The ambassador of the Aztec nation on the island, Miguel Díaz Reynoso, and local authorities, received the solidarity charge that will contribute to the recovery in the western region.

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The Nabori Indian: A centenary with a magnifying glass

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Today, Friday, September 30, the Naborí Indian would be one hundred years old. But it happens that matters related to this poet are not easy for me. Let’s say that my word is absorbed by the force of an intensely clean love full of memories. A dilemma? Yes, a dilemma, perhaps half resolved when I put into practice a kind of distancing where the close image is replaced by words that little by little allow me to develop some themes.

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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.

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Cuba and Japan for deepening relations of friendship and cooperation

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The Prime Ministers of Cuba and Japan, Manuel Marrero Cruz and Fumio Kishida, agreed during a meeting at the Akasaka Palace, in Tokyo, on the importance of strengthening relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. The also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba reiterated his condolences for the death of Shinzo Abe, the first acting Japanese president who visited the Caribbean nation and a key figure in the advancement of bilateral ties.

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Cuban Foreign Minister talks about the Family Code with US legal and civic organizations

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who traveled to New York to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, exchanged this Wednesday with representatives of legal and civic organizations from the United States on the referendum. popular of the Family Code. On his Twitter account, the Cuban foreign minister described the debate as enriching, in which he offered details on the results of the referendum, its inclusive nature and the benefits of the new law for Cuban society.

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United Nations links Cuba in renewable energy program

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The largest region of Cuba is benefited by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the donation of 342 photovoltaic panels for families affected by weather phenomena. The two-kilowatt power equipment comes from the European Union and is manufactured in China, distributed in the four provinces of central Cuba (Camagüey, Ciego Ávila, Sancti Spíritus and Villa Clara), which were affected in 2017. by Hurricane Irma, specifically in the northern municipalities.