Denny Legrá Azhares, president of the Provincial Defense Council, urged in Guantanamo to streamline clean-up actions and adopt measures in order to guarantee a rational and orderly evacuation of the vulnerable population, mainly in family homes and in accordance with the path and  evolution of Hurricane Irma.

Denny Legrá, president of the Defense Council in the eastern Cuban province in Guantanamo, and other leaders of the territory, visit the vulnerable areas to adopt the necessary measures in time for the possible impact of Hurricane Irma, which has already reached the highest category (5) on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

According to information from the Weather Forecast Center, Irma continues to be an intense 5 category hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, heading west-northwest, increasing its speed of travel to 26 km / h. It is expected that in the next 48 to 72 hours affect the eastern region of Cuba.

The president of the Guantanamo Provincial Defense Council, Denny Legrá Azahares, ordered the immediate dispatch of forces and means (including brigades of telecommunications and electricity linemen) to Maisí, Baracoa and other vulnerable municipalities in eastern territory, facing the imminent danger of Hurricane Irma, category 5, in its route through the Caribbean, in order to reestablish the possible effects of the meteorological phenomenon.

Beginning today, September 4 through the end of the month, the process of nominating candidates for upcoming general elections begins in neighborhood assemblies across the country.