Díaz-Canel arrives in Guantánamo after Hurricane Oscar's passage.

Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived this Wednesday in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur, in Guantánamo, one of the regions most affected by the passage of Hurricane Oscar.

The hurricane made landfall in eastern Cuba on Sunday, leaving major flooding, isolated towns, missing persons, and seven confirmed fatalities so far.

Díaz-Canel arrives in Guantánamo three days later, assuring that "no Cuban has been left behind" in this natural disaster.

"All of Cuba is at your service. (...) Rest assured that you are not alone, nor abandoned," said the leader to the people of Guantánamo.

Hurricane Oscar arrived in the eastern region in the early days of a nationwide blackout. People were not well-informed about the magnitude of the storm due to the lack of electricity, which left most of them cut off from communication.

Many families in rural areas were unable to evacuate in time and have lost everything, their animals, their crops, their properties, and some have even lost their lives.

According to official figures, only 15,000 people were evacuated in Guantánamo: 9,000 in Imías and 6,000 in San Antonio del Sur.

The situation is critical in the east of the country, in one of the most impoverished regions of Cuba. The problems are exacerbated by the lack of fuel to cook the few foods they have.

Furthermore, days go by and epidemics can arise if they do not manage to boil the water for drinking and clean as soon as possible all the inhabited areas that have been destroyed, filled with rubble, stones, and garbage.

The Cuban leader went to San Antonio del Sur accompanied by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, the Provincial PCC Secretary, Yoel Pérez García, and a large number of bodyguards and officers from the Armed Forces (FAR).

The images emerging on social media show the desolation in these localities, with homes completely flooded, spoiled food, and many families struggling to recover what little they have left.

"The small cyclone Oscar" was a devastating phenomenon in the eastern region of Cuba, and the extent of the damages is still unknown because the government does not provide enough official information.