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A distress call mobilized rescue teams from the Red Cross and the Las Tunas Fire Department to the municipality of Guamo, one of the areas hardest hit by flooding that followed Hurricane Melissa in eastern Cuba.
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There was a feeling that could not be erased, the face of Hurricane Flora, the water that took everything in 1963. When Raúl Aldana Álvarez, 72, from the town of Guamo in the Río Cauto municipality, was told that Melissa was coming strong, that image came back suddenly and forced him to decide quickly. It wasn't just out of fear; it was because of the memory of what happens when you stay.
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Yisandro Hernández Hernández, a soldier in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), is serving his active military service in the nation's capital. He is a farmer alongside his father in Pinar del Río; yes, that same land that just over a year ago was ravaged by a hurricane.
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On the morning of October 27, as the sky began to darken with clouds, the sound of the river grew louder than the voices in the neighborhood. Daineris Reyes Martínez left Guamo, a town in the municipality of Río Cauto, with the sun hidden and the feeling that a hug was enough to sustain her.
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Tears choke her words as Danisleidy Riol Castro recalls the terrible experience she went through that night, when the waters of the Cauto River flooded her home and threatened her life and that of her five young children. She remains at the Rita Longa art instructors' school, but her thoughts seem to be far away.
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