A frontal assault against the effect of hurricanes and earthquakes 

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The President of the National Defense Council (CDN), Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, highlighted the intense work being carried out in Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces in response to the effects of Sunday's earthquakes, in the proximities of Pilón; the one being waged in Artemisa, Havana and Mayabeque to recover from Hurricane Rafael; and the one being carried out by Guantánamo's people to erase the traces of Hurricane Oscar.The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic headed yesterday, through videoconference, the CDN check-up, which was also headed by the members of the Political Bureau, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister; Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, and Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic.In view of the current seismic situation, special measures have been adopted in Santiago de Cuba for this whole week, including the amplification of information to the population, in which, after overcoming the psychological effect of the tremor south of Pilon, the perception of danger is decreasing, informed the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party, Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, for whom it is still necessary to remain alert.She explained that this Monday night an exercise of the direction systems in the province was planned to be carried out, in case of a high intensity earthquake.She recalled that the National Center for Seismological Research (Cenais) has registered since Sunday more than 1 130 aftershocks, more than fifty of them perceptible.According to preliminary data, in Santiago de Cuba, more than 230 houses were affected by the earthquake in the municipalities closest to the epicenter. Damages are reported in some state, educational and health institutions, among others.About the situation in Granma, the CDN was informed by the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, who highlighted the organized response that the political and government authorities of the province have given in the face of the earthquake.He highlighted the work of the members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Interior, Public Health, the Electrical Union and the rest of the institutions.In Granma province, he summarized, they have acted "with professionalism and speed" before this "sudden event of great magnitude."

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