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Cuba Government will Use TV and Social Networks to Address People

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In order to improve the performance of the Cuban government and its interaction with the population, it will create a TV program and have larger presence in the social networks.
 
President of the Councils of State and Ministers Miguel Diaz-Canel made de announcement during the working sessions of the Standing Commissions of the People´s Power Assembly.
 
A website, a Youtube channel and a Twitter account will soon be opened to provide information on the country's governing, he told the deputies.
 
According to Cubadebate, the opening of these new spaces is part of the process of computerization of society, and fulfills the duty of public officials to be accountable to public opinion.
 
Those of us who hold decision-making positions and are public servants owe coherent and direct information to the population and among all of us we must do what Fidel did alone, even though all of us are Fidel," he told the Commission on Education, Culture, Science, Technology and the Environment.