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“We are still in combat, we are still working to address these two critical situations that place an exceptional condition in the lives of Cubans, and we will be permanently in contact with our people to the same extent that we are making progress in addressing these problems.”

The phrase, shared this Monday afternoon by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, has to do with the two contingencies affecting the Cuban people: the energy emergency and the impacts left by the passing of the Oscar weather phenomenon.

She, Gabriela Guerra, a resident in Mexico, and he, Vicente Amor, who lives in Tampa, spoke with the public attending the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC, to hear from their authors how their most recent “literary births” took place.

Guerra, winner of the 2016 Juan Rulfo Prize for her novel Bahía de Sal, spoke about Avándaro, a book she wrote during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, published last year, which she had the pleasure of presenting in February at the International Book Fair in Havana (Fillh).