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The most serious onslaught of Hurricane Irma left Caribean areas devastated and in need of serious repairs that will take some time.  We don’t have news that members of the Basque community were particularly affected, although we continue to receive images on the sports facilities like the frontons in Ciego de Avila, where the National Martyrs of Bolivia Cup is held and that it has been severely damaged.  

Ciego de Avila, Cuba. In fact, the clearing and cleaning work of what were once the Basque pelota frontons has already begun.  It has been confirmed that the sports facilities can no longer be used, and the next steps have been noted.  According to Leonardo Rodriguez Sanchez, Sports Director in the Province of Avila, “Irma destroyed the kantxas, whose walls are 20 x 30 meters long and 7 x 9 nine meters high, so building will begin at the base,” Rodriguez Sanchez told INDER, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Recreation and Recreation's JIT bulletin.

Although there is a lack of Steel in the territory, there are already more than three thousand blocks, and a considerable amount of aggregate and cement which confirms the desire to rescue the premises which houses the school and youth  programs in the discipline and which has served for years to train athletes,” he said.

We are also requesting contributions from construction companies because they are the ones that have the lifting equipment and other scaffolding that are necessary for this high-altitude work,” he said.  The hurricane wreaked havoc on the 63 sports facilities in Ciego de Avila, mainly by ripping off the zinc roofs and fiber cement tiles, detaching the carpentry and waterproof mantles along with the solid roofs, JIT said.