The flooding caused by the swelling of the Salado and Matamoros rivers, due to the heavy rains of recent days, isolated 194 inhabitants of the Altagracia community, in the municipality of Cacocum, in Holguín, where no greater damages are reported due to compliance with the measures established for the protection of the population and the economy in the face of such adversities.

With the collaboration of the British Council Cuba, Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella, Cuban minister of education, is attending the largest gathering of global leaders in the sector, which takes place May 22-25 in London, United Kingdom.

Around 300 aftershocks, 15 of them perceptible, were registered in the central-eastern region of Cuba, informed Enrique Diego Arango Arias, head of the National Seismological Service of the National Center for Seismological Research (Cnais by its Spanish acronym).