HAVANA, Cuba.- Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), presided in Pinar del Rio the meeting of the Defense Council next to Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra, Chief of the Civil Defense National General Staff.

During the meeting, they assessed preliminary effects caused by the passage of Hurricane Michael, a hydro-meteorological phenomenon that maintains without electricity 88 percent of the province.

In Pinar del Rio, during the meeting of the Defense Council, the progress of services, the supply of water to the community, the production of food, and the provision of domestic fuel and transport. were examined.

At the end, Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra said that the recovery must be immediately, and urged the people in Pinar del Rio to work and get ahead.