Mayabeque, Cuba_ The First Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, pointed out at a meeting of the Provincial Defense Council that to the extent that resources permit, we will respond to the damages caused by Hurricane Irma to the population and entities that guarantee the basic services.

According to Granma newspaper, Diaz-Canel noted this territory plays an important role in supplying the capital with food, natural gas, water, and electricity, which from Mayabeque are sent to the Cuban capital.

Alternatively they created elaborate food outlets that function in those settlements that still have a complex situation, although electricity and water services are stabilizing.

Agriculture lost more than 1,400 hectares of banana, as well as maize and cassava, which were harvested as far as possible and distributed to the population.

Diaz-Canel said that the beginning of the cold season this month will recover the damaged, while in the cane there is a similar situation that forces to reorganize the strategy of harvesting.

Public transportation has been reestablished, while work continues on a section of the Via Blanca highway around kilometer 44, where a 400 meter washout occurred

Díaz-Canel and Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, leader of the Federation of Cuban Workers, visited the Santa Cruz del Norte thermoelectric plant where progress is being made in fully restoring operations.

Members of the Political Bureau of the Party, Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, and Army General Leopoldo Cintra Frías, minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, exchanged with the Provincial Defense Council.

Lazo congratulated the members of the governing body and toured the stretch of the Via Blanca in reconstruction, accompanied by Juan Miguel Garcia Diaz, member of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Defense Council in Mayabeque, as well as other authorities.

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