Accompanied by seven other candidates, for this city in the center of the country, to the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People´s Power, the Cuban president exchanged views with persons of all ages in this neighborhood with a population of approximately 19,800 inhabitants.

In all these meetings, the Cuban president stated how important it has been for him and the other candidates, to have got the possibility of knowing the concerns of the population in the improvement of the economic and social development of the country.

He emphasized that many of these problems in the communities have already been solved, others are in the process of solution and some are impossible to come about at this time due to the precarious financial situation the nation is passing through.

The also first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba led a march the day before through the main roads of the city in favor of the unity of the people, and witnessed in the Leoncio Vidal Park, along with hundreds citizens, a musical show by the orchestra “Arnaldo y su Talismán”.

On Thursday evening he attended a concert by the D’Cuba group at the Museum of Decorative Arts.

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