This Tuesday, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, expressed on behalf of the Venezuelan people all his solidarity with the Cuban people in the face of the blows caused in the Greater Antilles by the passage of Hurricane Ian.
In this sense, the Head of State ordered all support for the recovery process on the island. “all the support and solidarity with the people of Cuba to go and support for the ravages that the hurricane caused in its path.”
Maduro stressed that Cuba and Venezuela are united by the peoples and the future of humanity.
The words of support from Venezuela for the people of Cuba were expressed by the National President during a working day to present the progress of the BRICOMILES for health and the balance of the 1×10 System of Good Government, from the state of La Guaira.
Recovery begins in areas affected by Ian in Cuba
Cuba mobilizes this Tuesday the solidarity of specialists and technicians from various provinces to support the recovery efforts in territories in the west of the country, affected after the passage of Hurricane Ian.
The Electric Union (UNE) reported that 48 contingents from the territories of Holguín, Granma, Camagüey, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Mayabeque are already moving to Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Havana and Isla de la Youth to contribute to restore the electrical service, refers Latin Press.
Around 550 people make up this support group who, according to the UNE, will do their best to not leave a single Cuban without electricity.
Reports from the center of the island, in Sancti Spíritus, confirmed the departure of a brigade of linemen, which was dismissed by the highest authorities of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the demarcation.
Likewise, in the eastern territory of Granma, a contingent of workers from the electric company was championed by the first secretary of the PCC, Yanaisi Capó, prior to their departure to offer their contribution.
Reports on social networks also share the solidarity sent from Cienfuegos (center), to contribute to the restoration of electricity in Pinar del Río, a province that has affected one hundred percent of that service.
On television, it was also known about the mobilization of a team of workers from Villa Clara, in the center of the national territory.
Ian has been hitting the west of the country since early Tuesday morning, with strong gusts of wind and significant accumulations of rain.
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Photograph of a street with the destruction left by the passage of Hurricane Ian, today, in Pinar del Río (Cuba). Photo: EFE -
A man walks on a street with destruction left by the passage of Hurricane Ian, today, in Pinar del Río (Cuba). Photo: EFE -
Some of the damage left by the passage of Hurricane Ian, today, in Pinar del Río (Cuba). Photo: EFE -
Damage left by the passage of Hurricane Ian. Photo: EFE -
In the image, damage left by the passage of Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Río (Cuba). Photo: EFE -
Category 3 hurricane Ian entered the southern town of Coloma in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba, on Tuesday around 04:30 local time. Photo: Telepinar
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The municipality of San Juan y Martínez in the westernmost province of Cuba has been severely impacted with several homes destroyed. Photo: Cubadebate -
In the town of Puerto Esperanza, north of Pinar del Río, through which the cyclone entered the sea, trees have fallen and floods have been recorded. Photo: Cubadebate -
Gusts of wind and rainfall have increased their strength in the province of Havana after noon, which has practically paralyzed mobility. Photo: Qva live -
Local sources in the capital city of the province of Artemisa testify to the fall of one of the towers of the 26 de Julio baseball stadium. Photo: Cubadebate
Hurricane Ian, with category three (out of five) on the Saffir-Simpson scale, caused considerable material damage on Tuesday in western Cuba, with heavy rains and strong winds, as it passed north towards Florida (USA). .).
Ian, the fourth hurricane of the season and the first to affect Cuba, has left a multitude of municipalities devastated in the western third of the island.
