Cuba braces for natural disasters
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- 05 / 20 / 2007
The popular drill "Meteoro 2007" takes place in Cuba on Saturday and Sunday, as a precaution against the coming storm season, affecting the island every year from June 1 to November 30.
Civil Defense's General Staff Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Carretero told Prensa Latina the country are due to verify this weekend security measures and how direction structures and communication work to face up these meteorological phenomena.
Due to its geographical location, Cuba is whipped by tropical storms, so that it has been obliged to develop a protection system for people and goods, recognized by international organizations.
According to Jose Rubiera, chief of the Forecast Center of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology, the current storm season could be especially very active.
Source: Cubasi
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