Cuban banks move quickly with credits for those affected by Matthew. (Photo: escambray.cu)

Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa Martín, deputy minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR by its Spanish acronym), described the progress of the recovery in Guantánamo province following Hurricane Matthew as a heroic feat.

Espinosa said that the authorities, the people of Guantánamo and the contingents of other provinces have lived up to the sacrifice and the commitment this task demands every day.

He pointed out that there are facilities and properties to be restored yet, that 70% of the damaged houses have been rebuilt and added that communication in roads and bridges that the hurricane left almost useless were already restored.

Next to Denny Legrá Azahares, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Guantánamo, and René Mesa Villafaña, Cuba´s Minister of Construction and FAR deputy minister, he traveled the road between the towns of Yumurí and Jobo Claro, in the easternmost tip of the archipelago.

This road is considered of great socio-economic value for both territories and one of the most difficult works of the recovery, since it will be rebuilt over coastal rocks, so it will require the use of explosives in some points to carry out the excavation.

Previously, the Hero of the Republic of Cuba and his companions handed over the Labor Force Flag, instituted by the Cuban Workers Federation, to three groups of the National Construction Trade Union, two of them belonging to the National Institute of Hydraulic Resource.