The voices of the three audios are similar. Will it be the same COVID biologist? asked Barbara Betancourt, recently released from rest forced by dengue fever aggravated by numerous cormobilities and chose to tell her experiences as a patient, highlighting the way in which the early warning and protection system works for people that distinguish the work of MINSAP, in a strategy that already includes television ads during prime time.

If anything has been transparently monitored in the country, it is epidemiological issues. Every day a meeting of the working groups created to deal with COVID, which have remained activated (one for the epidemic and another for experts) in the face of the growth in dengue cases, for example. In Cuba, many resources and medicines may be and are lacking, but information and primary care are guaranteed. But to be up-to-date, you really have to search for and contrast the information in the Cuban public media.

A last alarmist audio, not related to health, but to the state of mind of the population, served as the closing of the analysis.

Created as soon as the country’s presidency and the directors of MINEM reported how they had decided to face the problem of energy generation, there the elements that seek to give credibility to the hoax, make the lie seem like the truth, are heard again. It is an old but very functional technique, even more so in the stormy sea of ​​the internet, where anything goes and almost everything is believed. By identifying the voice as that of someone expert, giving apparently real locations, a degree of credibility is obtained in which to support the main message: “don’t believe what you have been told. There is no solution”.

In reality, we live in hard times of uncertainty and the objectivity of the problems, specifically the blackout, create the conditions for anyone to believe in anything. But there is a job, a serious, consecrated and professional job, that expects and deserves trust.

I have seen some post in the last few hours, stating that the changes in the direction of the UNE and the MINEM will solve everything at a stroke. Beware of over-enthusiasm. The official notes on the changes are clear in terms of recognizing the merits of the substituted teammates and those that those who assume these tasks will have to face. We should not expect miracles. Perhaps we should wait for a change in strategy, tactics, innovations.

The pressures under which you have worked so far have an impact on the valued colleagues who will take on other tasks. But we must not forget that the problem is not only Cuban. Many other countries, without a blockade and with unfenced finances, are also suffering from energy crises.

As was said when announcing the changes, work continues under tension, but the purpose of overcoming the current deficits as soon as possible remains. There is no exact date yet. There is a commitment. And the few resources available based on those efforts.

(By: Arleen Rodríguez Derivet/Cubadebate)

In the fraternal exchange, both leaders referred to the historic relationship that both countries have maintained since 1960, the year in which diplomatic ties were established.

The Cambodian Premier recalled his visit to Cuba in 1999, when he received the José Martí Order from the hands of the Historical Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz. Likewise, he highlighted medical collaboration as a pillar in the relationships developed over the years.

For his part, Raúl referred to Cambodia’s management as pro tempore president of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and ratified the will to strengthen Cuba’s cooperation with that regional bloc.

On the Cuban side, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Peñalver Portal, also participated.

(With information from Granma)

The exchange was led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, a member of the Political Bureau.

The head of the Ministry of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, reported that there is dengue transmission in the 15 provinces and the Isle of Youth. The incidence rate of suspected cases in the past week, number 37 of the year, increased with respect to the previous one by 2.5 percent.

The infestation and disease rates continue to warn that institutional, family and business responsibility in order to reduce the outbreaks of the Aedes aegypti mosquito is key in dengue control, starting with the quality of the work of those who work in the anti-vector campaign .

In the meeting by videoconference with political and government authorities from all the country’s territories, the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández; the deputy prime ministers, Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Inés María Chapman Waugh, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruíz, Alejandro Gil Fernández and Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, as well as ministers and other authorities.

The meeting, which systematically analyzes the behavior of a group of sectors and activities directly linked to the daily life of the population, also evaluated the covid-19 epidemic, whose indicators continue to go towards a sustained decline, a sign of the control that Cuba has achieved in confronting the disease and the transmission of the virus.

The issue was also addressed at the weekly meeting of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister with experts and scientists for health issues. Doctor of Science Gerardo Guillén Nieto, director of Biomedical Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), presented the Cuban strategy for the dengue vaccine.

It is a path that still requires time, but that is becoming more and more viable given the strength of the wealth of knowledge and results achieved by Cuban scientists working on this initiative and which has achieved great international prestige.

It is a national project that began in 1992, at the initiative of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, and is jointly developed by the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) and the CIGB.

At this week’s meeting of experts and scientists for Health issues, the usual forecasts on the behavior of the covid-19 epidemic for the days to come were also presented.

The information was explained, as is customary, by Doctor of Science Raúl Guinovart Díaz, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing at the University of Havana.

He referred that the reports of the disease in the country continue to decline in all provinces and in the coming weeks control of the disease should be maintained.

The prevention and control actions of the new coronavirus were also analyzed by Dr. Ileana Morales Suárez, director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Minsap, who offered an update on the Cuban Vaccination Strategy against COVID-19.

She explained that soon the country will add the application to our population of 42 million doses of national vaccines. Cuba, she explained, continues to lead, with 400 doses per hundred inhabitants, this process worldwide.

The covid-19 is not over, said Dr. Morales Suárez; however, she noted, only 67.9 percent of the world’s population has received at least one dose; however, in low-income countries, immunization has only reached 22.5 percent of their population.

Only seven countries, including Cuba, exceed 90 percent of the population fully vaccinated; at the same time, international booster doses are no more than 31 percent, she added.

He referred that the reports of the disease in the country continue to decline in all provinces and in the coming weeks control of the disease must be maintained.
The prevention and control actions of the new coronavirus were also analyzed by Dr. Ileana Morales Suárez, director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Minsap, who offered an update on the Cuban Vaccination Strategy against COVID-19.
She explained that soon the country will add the application to our population of 42 million doses of national vaccines. Cuba, she explained, continues to lead, with 400 doses per hundred inhabitants, this process worldwide.
The covid-19 is not over, said Dr. Morales Suárez; however, she noted, only 67.9 percent of the world’s population has received at least one dose; however, in low-income countries, immunization has only reached 22.5 percent of their population.
Only seven countries, including Cuba, exceed 90 percent of the population fully vaccinated; at the same time, international booster doses are no more than 31 percent, she added.
The Director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Minsap added that in our country 1,930,357 children and adolescents are fully immunized, 98.8 percent of the people in those ages who are vaccinable; and 1,459,392 have received booster doses.
This is something – pointed out Dr. Morales Suárez – that makes us proud, that speaks of the effort and dedication of those who work in our scientific centers and the health system.

(By: Rene Tamayo)

In the exchange, linked by videoconference from the Palace of the Revolution with the 13 territories involved in the harvest and in which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa participated, the implementation of the new concept for planning the harvest was reviewed. .

According to Julio Andrés García Pérez, President of AZCUBA, it is about planning the harvest so that it is objective, flexible and, although small, with good practices, concentrating resources in fewer plants to achieve greater efficiency.

Sustain the harvest, he said, in the real financing that may be available and under the principle of guaranteeing internal consumption and obtaining derivatives of that production, such as animal feed, alcohol and honey that allow an export plan depending on the prices in the market.

The plan will focus on a new business model, where the planning is financial and not only measuring sugar production, considering the circular economy as a priority, as well as the science and innovation model, said García Pérez.

According to him, 6,574,000 tons of cane must be milled and 455,198 tons of sugar produced, destined for the Family Basket and other consumption of the economy such as tourism, medicines, industrial production and for export.

Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca specified that it is essential to rescue discipline in everything we do. The works are going well, there is a good response from the sugar producers, but the quality certification of the repairs by the AZCUBA technical teams is essential.

Tapia Fonseca considered it essential that the workers control how much they are going to earn each day, each week, from the main tasks, and that they feel that if the central does not grind their economic results they will not be good, because it has already been clarified that this year there will be no more subsidies for losses in the sector.

Efficiency indicators are the main weapon of this harvest, which will be “the beginning of sugarcane recovery in the country,” predicted the deputy prime minister, who also drew attention to the constant monitoring that AZCUBA directors and the main authorities must provide. of the territories to the repair and maintenance work to guarantee the following sugar dispute in the mills that do not grind in it.

(Taken from the site of the Presidency)

From August 14 to 20, week 33 of the year, transmission was opened in the provinces of Mayabeque (in the municipality of Güines), Cienfuegos (in Rodas) and Guantánamo (in Caimanera), it was reported at the meeting this Tuesday of the Group temporary work of the Government for the prevention and control of Covid-19.

In videoconference format with the political and government authorities of the 15 provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, the exchange was led, from the Palace of the Revolution, by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic , Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.

An analysis of the epidemiological situation of dengue and Aedes Aegypti at the end of week 33 was presented by Dr. Carilda Peña García, Deputy Minister of Public Health, who reported that 22,509 SUMA IgM samples were processed for dengue diagnosis, 933 more than in the previous week.

The studies showed 11,634 reactive cases, 251 more than week 32, but a positivity of 51.7 percent, somewhat lower than the previous period.

The highest positivity corresponded to the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, as well as to the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Las Tunas, Holguín, Camagüey and Guantánamo.

Regarding the levels of infestation of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, Peña García explained that in week 33, compared to the same week of the previous year, the focus of the vector is higher by 49.5 percent, with 1,683 more foci. Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Camagüey, Villa Clara, Matanzas and Las Tunas contribute 74.1 percent of the country’s focus.

Regarding the confrontation and control of COVID-19, it was learned that at the end of last week (August 20), transmission increased by 28.9 percent compared to July.

The highest levels of transmission in the current month occur in Holguín, Santiago de Cuba, Sancti Spíritus, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Havana and Guantánamo, where 71.9 percent of the cases diagnosed in the country during August are concentrated.

In week 33, one death from COVID-19 was reported, after 13 weeks without deaths in Cuba from this cause. The cumulative lethality from the start of the pandemic to August 20 was 0.77 percent (1,109,992 cases with 8,530 deaths).

The meeting of the Temporary Working Group of the Government for the prevention and control of the pandemic, also followed up on the first reported case of monkeypox in the country —which led to the death of the patient, an Italian tourist— and surveillance that is followed with those who had contact with him.

The meeting also paid attention to the strengthening of the distribution system of oxygen and other gases in the territories; and to the continuity of actions to support Cupet by other organizations in the distribution of fuels, as well as the implementation and control of compliance with the organizational measures for its commercialization.

The measures aimed at facing the current energy situation and reducing the effects on the water supply by different methods were addressed; as well as the control of compliance with the plan for programmed effects on the electrical service and the permanent updating of information for the population.

(By: Rene Tamayo)

Yesterday afternoon Benito Alonso Gonzalez left the comfort of his home in the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Artemisa, because a group at the service of foreign and annexationist interests, paid and directed by the United States, was looking to provoke a social explosion.

He went to the park, and spoke to reporters there about “the traitors who want to sell the Revolution for a few pesos,” the revolution that helped save his brother from COVID-19 just two weeks ago, the revolution that asks us to stay home, to avoid seeing more people die due to the pandemic.

There, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Benito himself, and the provocateurs came across a crowd of residents carrying Cuban flags and shouting: Long live the Revolution, Homeland or Death, Venceremos!

“Those of us who have come this far are faithful custodians of the Revolution, we want it strong, we were raised by the Revolution. And now, with the presence of Díaz-Canel, we feel firm, secure, because the Revolution is with the people, who are the true owners of the streets. In Cuba we will not allow those who want to take away what we have conquered to enter,” warned Antonio Crespo, a resident of San Antonio who joined the popular response.

Also in the park where Díaz-Canel went to confront those who intended to fracture the unity of the Party, the state, the government and the people, were father and son, Roberto Reyes Herrera, president of the Antonio Briones Montoto agricultural cooperative production unit, and Yosbel Reyes Sotomayor. The former recalled the hard times Cubans faced before 1959, which his parents told him about, and insisted that he is grateful for “the opportunities the Revolution has given me, that a few do not want to recognize.”

His son likewise stated, “I’m sure that it was the Cuban-American mafia who paid the provocateurs who wanted to take advantage of the difficult situation Cuba is experiencing,” adding, “The youth of San Antonio are on the side of our leaders, that is why we have taken to the parks and the streets.”

The flags, the cheers, the revolutionary conscience and confidence in those who are working every day to move our nation forward, left drowning in a sigh of impotence the malicious imperialist lackeys who made Benito leave his quiet Sunday at home. He insisted, “Let it be known, the people of Cuba are not those who disturbed the peace today, those who love the empire so much. The people of Cuba are the doctors, the scientists who made the vaccines, those of us who came to tell the President: Whatever it takes, Díaz-Canel, whatever it takes!”

(Take from Granma)

The President began his remarks with a revolutionary greeting to the entire people, and said: “Unfortunately, we have been obliged to interrupt our Sunday, that all our families take to rest and spend time together, to inform you and share with you a series of elements related to the events that have been taking place today, which are part of a high level, systematic, escalating provocation, which has been promoted by the counterrevolution over these days.”

What is the background to this situation we are experiencing, he asked.

“We have been honest, we have been open, we have been clear, and at all times we have explained the complexities of the current situation to our people. I remember that more than a year and a half ago, when the second half of 2019 was just starting, we had to explain that we were heading toward a difficult conjuncture, and we used that term, which was later taken up as part of popular humor, since we have remained in this ‘conjuncture’ for a long time…Beginning with all the signs that the U.S. government, headed by the Trump administration, was giving in relation to Cuba.”

Diaz-Canel recalled that the adoption of an extensive series of restrictive measures to tighten the blockade began; financial persecution, energy persecution, with the goal of asphyxiating the country’s economy.

He denounced ongoing efforts to provoke a massive social explosion in Cuba, including all sorts of propaganda and ideological constructions they fabricate to call for misnamed humanitarian interventions, which end up as military interventions and interference, trampling the rights and violating the sovereignty, the independence of peoples.

This succession of hostile acts continued, he noted, “Then came the 243 measures we all know about. And in the last days of that administration the decision was made to include Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.”

He reiterated that this list is a totally spurious list, an illegitimate list, and a unilateral list, fabricated by the U.S. in the belief that they are the power dominates the world, that they are the emperors of this world.”

He noted that, unfortunately, due to the lack of principles that exists within more than a few international institutions and national governments, many cave in and go along with these hostile measures and actions.

“It must be recognized that others do not submit to be the imposition of these measures, but they are limited by the extraterritorial nature that these.

“And that further increased the impact of the restrictions, which above all implied that the country was immediately cut off from its main sources of foreign currency income: I am talking about tourism, I am talking about the trips of Cubans and U.S. citizens to our country, about the much-awaited remittances to Cuban families from their relatives in the United States.”

The President also denounced U.S. efforts to discredit Cuban medical brigades, since this medical collaboration, beyond the many instances of solidarity provided, also generates foreign currency income.

All this, he said, is causing shortages in the country: “Shortages of food, of medicines, raw materials and inputs needed by our economic and productive processes, which contribute both exports and supplies for the people; therefore here two important elements are cut off: the capacity to export and to acquire foreign currency to import and invest, and the capacity of the productive processes to be produce a full range of goods and services for our population.”

He pointed out that the country “has seen its fuel supply limited, access to spare parts limited, and all this has caused dissatisfaction, has exacerbated accumulated problems, which we have not been able to resolve, have been around since the special period, and to all this has been added a ferocious media campaign to discredit us, as part of a so-called non-conventional war, which attempts, on the one hand, to break the unity of the Party, the government, the state and the people, attempting to portray the government as inept, incapable of providing wellbeing to the Cuban people, attempting to portray the U.S. government as “very concerned about the welfare of the Cuban people,” who it has unjustly blockaded, telling them how they can aspire to development and progress in a country such as ours.

“These are the usual hypocritical prescriptions and speeches of double standards, which we know very well, throughout the history of United States behavior toward Cuba. We know how they intervened in our country, how they appropriated our island, how they maintained domination of our Island during the pseudo-republic and how their interests were hit hard by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

“For 60 years the example of the Cuban Revolution has bothered them, and they have constantly tightened… applied an unjust, criminal, cruel blockade, reinforced, worse than ever under pandemic conditions. Therein lies the manifest perversity, the maliciousness of all these intentions: blockade and restrictive measures, which they have never taken against any other country, or against those they consider their main enemies.

“This has been a work and a policy of viciousness against a small Island, which only aspires to defend its independence, its sovereignty and build, with self-determination, its society in accordance with the principles that more than 86% of the population has approved, has supported in the broad and democratic exercise we held, to approve the current Constitution of the Republic of Cuba.

“And in the midst of these conditions comes the pandemic, a pandemic that has not only affected Cuba, a pandemic that has affected the whole world, a pandemic that has also affected the United States, that has affected rich countries. It must be said that the United States and other rich countries did not have the capacity to confront the effects of this pandemic at the beginning.

“And in many of those first world countries, with much more wealth, health systems collapsed, intensive care units were overwhelmed. The poor have been disadvantaged because there are no public policies directed toward saving the people,” and these rich countries in many cases have worse results than Cuba in terms of responding to the pandemic.

“And we were impacted by the pandemic and, in the midst of all these other restrictions, with the reserves that the country has created, with the little we had in the country, with the little we have been able to acquire this difficult year and a half, is that we have been able to meet these challenges, these tests.

“And we have done it with courage, we have done it without giving in and, above all, we have done it by sharing among all the little we have, and we have not only shared within Cuba, we have shared with the world. There is the example of the Henry Reeve internationalist brigades, which has gone to places brutally affected by the pandemic.

“And this is how we have moved forward, controlling one wave after another, with a tremendous capacity for sacrifice on the part of our people, of our scientists, of our health personnel, of almost the entire country involved in this.

Díaz-Canel recalled that five candidate vaccines have been developed, one already recognized as a vaccine, the first in Latin America against COVID-19. Cuba is already vaccinating our population, and this is a process that takes time. Vaccines must be produced, but we currently have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world and in a few weeks we will have reached more than 20% of the total population,” he noted.

However, he noted, in the last few months more aggressive strains have appeared, and in the midst of this already serious situation, another group of complications began to appear.

“First of all, new cases are emerging at a speed and accumulation that exceeded the capacities we have been able to create to treat these patients in state institutions. On the other hand, we have been obliged to expand capacity in other centers,” he explained.

In this sense, by opening more centers, to which energy priority must be given – in the midst of the accumulation of problems in the generation of electricity, the number of circuits that we must protect, to attend these patients, has increased.

With more patients, he continued, the stock of medicines is also running low and acquiring them is very difficult; and in the midst of all this, we continue to work for everyone.

“Now we have been obliged to resort to home isolation due to the lack of capacity in a number of provinces, and call on families to participate more directly, more responsibly. One never tires of admiring the capacity for creative resistance of our people.”

With these values, he insisted, with vaccination advancing, complying with the necessary sanitary measures, we will emerge sooner rather than later from this peak in the pandemic, which is not only hitting Cuba. Cuba managed to postpone this high point with everything we did, and we will overcome it.

But now, he noted, in a very cowardly, subtle, opportunistic and perverse manner, exploiting the most difficult situations we have in provinces like Matanzas and Ciego de Avila, those who have always supported the blockade, those who have served as mercenaries, lackeys of the Yankee empire, begin to appear with calls for a humanitarian intervention, a humanitarian corridor, to strengthen the idea that the Cuban government is not capable of handling this situation, as if they were really interested in the welfare and health of our people.

“If they want to make a gesture toward Cuba, if they really are concerned about the people, if they want to solve Cuba’s problems: lift the blockade and let’s see how we do, why don’t they do that? Why don’t they have the courage to lift the blockade, what legal and moral basis allows a foreign government to implement such a policy against a small country, and in the midst of such adverse conditions? Isn’t this genocide?”

He denounced the assertion that a dictatorship exists in Cuba, “A dictatorship that is concerned about providing healthcare for its entire population, that seeks welfare for all, that in the midst of this situation is capable of conducting public policies, aspiring to vaccination with a Cuban vaccine, because we knew that no one was going to sell us any, since we don’t have the money to buy them,” he said.

“What a strange dictatorship,” he exclaimed. Now they are shouting that we are murderers. Where are the murder victims in Cuba, where are the missing persons in Cuba? Other countries that have suffered these pandemic peaks were not attacked in the press and they were not offered humanitarian intervention as a solution, nor were they subjected to these slander campaigns as we are, Díaz-Canel emphasized.

“I believe that life, history, the facts show what is behind all this, which is the effort to asphyxiate us and put an end to the Revolution, and for that they are trying to discourage our people, to confuse our people. And when the people are facing severe conditions, then events like the ones we experienced in San Antonio de los Baños take place.”

About the events in this area, he detailed:

Who was part of the group? It included members of the population, who have needs, who are experiencing some of these shortages; it included revolutionaries who are confused, do not have all the arguments, or were expressing these dissatisfactions, but they were doing differently, because they were seeking to understand, seeking explanations.

“But this was led by a core group of manipulators who are indeed lending themselves to the designs of the SOS Matanzas or SOS Cuba campaigns… Several days ago, they were preparing demonstrations or social disturbances of this type in several Cuban cities. This is criminal, at a time when people should be at home, protecting themselves.”

Diaz-Canel reported that revolutionaries in San Antonio de los Baños, provincial authorities, a group from the country’s leadership showed up there, we confronted the counterrevolutionaries and we talked to the revolutionaries, and to those asking for explanations, to show that Cuba’s streets belong to revolutionaries.

He pointed out that we know there are other groups of people gathering in streets and plazas, in other cities of the country, also moved by unhealthy purposes. “I am also giving this information, to reaffirm that in Cuba the streets belong to revolutionaries, that the state, the revolutionary government, guided by the Party, are more than willing to discuss, to argue and to participate with the people in the solution of problems, but recognizing the real cause of our problems, without allowing ourselves to be confused.”

Those who are encouraging demonstrations are not interested in good healthcare for Cuba, he emphasized. Remember that their model is neoliberal, the privatization of health, of medical services, of education; that everyone should save themselves as best they can, that those who have the money can access health care, he warned.

“We are not going to surrender sovereignty, the independence of our people, or the freedom of this nation. There are many of us revolutionaries in this town who are willing to give our lives and this is not a slogan, it is a conviction. They will have to step over our corpses if they want to confront the Revolution, and we are ready for anything and we will be in the streets fighting.”

We know that incidents of this type are being orchestrated in the streets of Havana and that there are large groups of revolutionaries confronting counterrevolutionary elements. We are separating the confused revolutionaries, the inhabitants of Cuba who have specific concerns, but we are not going to allow any counterrevolutionary, any mercenary, to provoke destabilization among our people.

“This is why we are calling on all revolutionaries in our country, all communists, to take to the streets in any of the places where these provocations may take place today, from now on, throughout these days,” he insisted.

“As I said in my closing speech at the Party Congress, we revolutionaries defend the Revolution above all else, we communists on the front lines, and with that conviction we are now in the streets, we are not going to allow anyone to manipulate our situation, or defend a plan that is not Cuban, that is not for the welfare of Cubans and that is annexationist. This is the task to which we call revolutionaries and communists of this country,” he concluded.

(Taken from Granma)

During his statements, the Head of State denounced the participation of the US administration in the historic political destabilization actions that are taking place against Cuba, and which have intensified, particularly during the pandemic.

Order:

22:10 - Tranquility, peace, tranquility in the heart of Havana

21:54 – The streets of Guantanamo belong to the revolutionaries

20:25 – Minister of Energy: What factors influence the increase in planned outages?

I ask the people for understanding, they work uninterruptedly, including Saturday and Sunday, to solve problems that we have in the base generation, mainly thermoelectric
Tense situation limitations in spare parts and technology, fuel for generation due to blockage problems and fuel quality
Since June 21, impacts that have increased in recent days because Guiteras came out, which contributes 300 megawatts
More instability of other plants
Last 3 days increased because demand increased considerably more than 320 megawatts at the peak of the night more consumption than previous days
Causes major effects
This also has to do with rising temperatures
19 units 13 have their maintenance cycle postponed
Final phase of concluding work on La Guitera
In the early hours of Tuesday, the block should be synchronized with the national electrical energy system
Work is being done to incorporate Felton
Between Felton and Guiteras, more than 500 megawatts must be incorporated into the system

19:58 – Cuban scientists willing to preserve the Sovereign Homeland

One of the creators of the Sovereign vaccines, Dagmar García Rivera, shared on her Twitter account the willingness of Biocubafarma scientists to do whatever is necessary to preserve our Homeland.

“The streets are ours, Cuba is ours. We will overcome this crisis as we have overcome others. Only the unity of the people will save us,” he said.

While some try to boycott the Cuban revolution, the scientists continue with their work to immunize the island. From very early on, workers from the Matanzas Drug Store continue to distribute Abdala and specialists from the Cuban National Neuroscience Center install PCUVENTE ventilators in the Matanzas hospitals .

19:53 – Good Faith: Nobody imposes anything on us

Israel and Yoel: “Nobody imposes anything on us.” “We have never hidden what we stand for.” “We believe in the great Cuban family.” “We defend the Health System, which is the one that is battling the pandemic.”

19:51 – Tranquility in most of the streets of Havana

19:40 – Fernando González Llort: At the call of the homeland, always, Present!

19:32 – The humble and grateful people of Artemis

19:27 – Piedad Córdoba: “Our support for Cuba and Díaz-Canel”

From Colombia, through Twitter , Piedad Córdoba sends her support to Cuba and the Díaz-Canel government.

19:22 – The answer in Cienfuegos is clear

Long live the Cuban Revolution!

19:18 – UPEC Presidency: The Cuban people would never rise up against themselves

The professionals and workers of the press in Cuba, always guided by the righteous and libertarian ideal of revolutionaries such as José Martí, Juan Gualberto Gómez, Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Fidel and Raúl, exalt the patriotic greatness of the Cuban people, their integrity and dignity , with which we will confront any attempt to provoke a social outbreak in the country. The latter will be impossible in a geographically small but morally immense nation that carried out one of the most profound social revolutions in this world.

The sensitive and honorable Cuban people would never rise up against themselves. He learned to discover his true enemies very well, to confront them under that Martian idea that freedom is paid at its price, something that mercenaries and plattists on duty will never understand.

Daily witnesses to the sacrifice of our people, the press workers will stand alongside them in defense of their honor and rights and alerting them to the serious scenario of fourth-generation warfare and mean and lying media siege imposed on the country.
19:17 – Cubans join the revolutionary response from the ICRT

Revolutionary response of ICRT workers. “The street belongs to the revolutionaries.

19:16 – From Jobabo, support for Díaz-Canel

19:10 – Young UCI university students ready to defend the Revolution

19:04 – Revolutionaries parade through the Havana Prado
18:54 – This afternoon at Maceo de Las Tunas park

18:53 – Ministry of Finance and Prices: “At the forefront in the defense of the Revolution”
18:40 – The provocateurs in Cuba wave United States flags

18:32 – “This street belongs to Fidel”, assures the people of Havana18:28 – In Ciego de Ávila, the streets also belong to the revolutionaries

In Ciego, the streets also belong to the revolutionaries, the entire people   on the street defending the Homeland.

Avileños take to the streets to defend the Revolution.

18:20 – What did Díaz-Canel say in San Antonio de los Baños?

18:14 – Gerardo Hernández at the head of the revolutionary people in Neptuno and Galiano

18:09 – Caibarienenses take to the streets

18:06 – The revolutionary people of Cienfuegos, true owners of the streets

18:05 – The MINREX in the first line in defense of its people

18:01 – Bruno Rodríguez: The people mobilize against the campaign of imperialism against Cuba

17:57 – Díaz-Canel has called and his people respond without hesitation

17:50 – On video, the Cuban people take to the streets to defend the Revolution

17:47 – Díaz-Canel exchanged with the population in San Antonio de los Baños

The first secretary of the PCC exchanged with the population of San Antonio de los Baños.

17:45 – Unofficial version of Díaz-Canel’s words

Cubadebate shares the unofficial version of Díaz-Canel’s words

Díaz-Canel to the people of Cuba: “The order to fight is given, the revolutionaries to the streets”

“The corresponding elaborations and analysis have been concluded, as well as all the necessary legal norms, so it is considered that the conditions are created to announce the start of the regulation process as of January 1,” said the president in a radio and television appearance.

As announced, this process of monetary and exchange regulation implies a new exchange rate, the cessation of the circulation of the CUC currency, the elimination of excessive subsidies and undue gratuities, and a modification in the distribution of income.

Díaz-Canel recalled that in the last two Party congresses the fundamental concepts that should guide the work in this regard were specified, in particular in the VII Congress.

“In the Conceptualization of the Cuban Economic and Social Model of Socialist Development in its chapter I establishes, among other aspects, the redesign of the monetary, exchange, tax, price, salary and other income system of citizens,” he said. .

For its part, Guideline number 40 of the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution for the period 2016-2021, proposes: Concluding the monetary and exchange unification, as a decisive process in the monetary order of the country.

The president argued that in the new economic and social strategy to boost the economy approved this year, “the monetary order is ratified as one of the fundamental components that is of transcendental importance and has a transversal impact on the entire economy.”

Since last October, information on aspects of the so-called ordering task has been offered at the Round Table and at the last session of the National Assembly of People’s Power. At the same time, there has been a wide dissemination on the subject in the press.

In turn, he added, extensive training has been carried out for those who must participate in this task, “which has been very useful as a feedback element in its final phase of preparation.”

Díaz-Canel reiterated the significance and importance of this task, “which will put the country in better conditions to carry out the transformations required by updating our economic and social model on the basis of guaranteeing all Cubans greater equal opportunities, rights and social justice, which will be possible not through egalitarianism, but by promoting interest and motivation for work ”.

“It has already been stated that the ordering task does not by itself constitute the magic solution to all the problems present in our economy. However, it will favor the creation of the necessary conditions to advance in a more solid way, ”he stressed.

Due to its comprehensive characteristics, he continued, it is one of the most complex tasks that the country has faced in the economic order, complexity that is increased by the effects of the intensified blockade, the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the international economic crisis and the impacts they have caused to the national economy.

“The task is not without risks, one of the main ones is if there is an inflation higher than designed, exacerbated by the current supply deficit,” said the president and assured that abusive and speculative prices will not be allowed, since they will face socially with containment measures and severe penalties for noncompliants.

For the successful development of this task, the president said that everyone’s effort and cooperation is required in order to achieve the expected results. “As always, we will be receptive to the criteria of the population to attend to any problem that may arise in its execution.”

He reiterated that the conditions are created to ensure that no one will be left helpless. “In socialist Cuba, shock therapies will never be used against the people and that the transformations that we must undertake in the economic and social model will be carried out by previously forging a consensus in favor of the unity of the nation.”

Díaz-Canel stressed that the monetary system also creates the conditions so that the business system can make the appropriate decisions and fully exercise the powers that have been granted to it, which allows so that the business system can make the right decisions and fully exercise the powers that have been granted, which will allow it to react positively by increasing benefits for its workers and for the whole of society.

(Cubadebate)