The United Nations system is mobilized to support efforts to address the effects of Hurricane Irma in the eastern Caribbean, a spokesperson said this Friday.
An earthquake of magnitude 8.4 on the Richter scale shook several Mexican states in the early morning of last Wednesday, causing panic among the population that went to the streets before the strong movement.
The population must be attentive to the information and be disciplined, prudent, responsible before Hurricane Irma, Mercedes Lopez Acea, first Secretary of the Party in Havana, said.
The first Vice-President of the Councils of State and of Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, held this Thursday talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, Hugo Martinez Bonilla, who pays an official visit in Cuba.
With the establishment of the cyclone alarm for Matanzas province, this Friday noon began the evacuation of residents in low-lying areas of the municipality of Jaguey Grande, where there have been strong floods before.
