Havana,

December 11 (RHC)--Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel rejected on Friday the attempts to apply a soft coup in the country and called for confronting political provocations that are part of that strategy.

During the second and last day of the governmental visit to Havana, the President recognized unity as strength in response to the most recent events.

“It is evident that they tried to apply a platform of a soft coup and have failed, we must be aware that the provocations will continue. We call for thinking and acting as a country', assured Diaz-Canel on the Presidency website.

The Head of State described confronting the US blockade, the application of the economic-social strategy,

and the confrontation to the Covid-19 as the most urgent tasks of the nation during the evaluation of the visit to Havana.

Together with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and other authorities of the country, the President discussed the advances in sectors such as agriculture, internal trade, housing, food industry, and transportation.

As part of the government's agenda, during the two days, the highest authorities and the Council of Ministers reviewed important economic and social projects in the capital city, the most populated area of the country.

On Thursday, the president toured several parts of the city, including LABIOFAM's Biopesticide Plant, housing construction projects in a community of the Boyeros municipality, and an art project in the neighborhood of San Agustin.

Meanwhile, members of the Council of Ministers visited other sites of economic and social interest in the capital.