media as a platform for change. In 2013, hundreds of women protested against the ban on driving by posting images or videos of themselves behind the wheel on YouTube and Twitter. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. Although women are not legally restricted from driving, the religious establishment prohibits them from obtaining licenses. The protest was followed by an online petition calling for change, which attained almost 17,000 signatures. Women’s rights activists carefully framed their argument by highlighting religious edicts that ban women from being in the company of an unrelated male driver, and the inconvenience and cost of hiring chauffers, advocating instead for female police officers and driving instructors. In June this year, the campaign re-emerged, this time withCuba strengthens houses to face hurricanes

Frequently hit hurricanes, the inhabitants of Pinar del Rio are constructing more resistant homes to face these atmospheric phenomena.

The replacement of light roofs with more lasting ones is an indispensable alternative to palliate the effects of the hurricanes, stated the territorial housing director Pablo Veliz.

Trimax procedure (polymer covered by metallic mesh and concrete) is one of the variants used in this western territory after two hurricanes in 2008.

Ever since that date, he added, over half a thousand families of Pinar del Rio have been benefited with this building modality since it is easy to mount and fast to execute, and also offers guarantees to resist the strong winds of tropical events.

Veliz made sure that 51 percent of the houses to be built in