Armed Forces

Dissident dies, tanks roll

January 20, 2012

Orlando Luis Pardo tweeted there was movement of tanks via rail from Via Blanca (Paso Superior) on the outskirts of Havana. Is this movement in response to yesterday’s death of dissident Wilman Villar Mendoza after his hunger strike? The same occurred when dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo death was announced in 2010.

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Defense cooperation between South Africa and Cuba

January 14, 2012

South Africa and Cuba signed a memorandum Jan. 10 to put a stamp on the cooperation between the two country’s armies. Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu signed the memorandum of understanding with [Division General] Ulises Rosales del Toro, the vice-president of Cuba’s council of ministers. The two countries have already worked together in the past, but [...]

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Cuba & Venezuela will jointly build coastal patrol boats

January 11, 2012

An agreement has been signed between the Venezuelan Defense Ministry and Cuban Transportation Ministry to jointly build patrol boats for the Venezuelan Navy in Puerto Cabello (Carabobo), announced Admiral Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia (Commander General, Venezuela Navy). The project has been under development for six years. These Págalo class patrol boats (built by the Dutch [...]

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Female colonel is GAESA VP

January 3, 2012

Juventud Rebelde revealed in this article published last week that a female colonel, Ania Lastre Morera, is first vice-president of the Cuban military’s powerful business holding company, GAESA — Grupo de Administracion Empresarial S.A. (Enterprise Management Group Inc.). (Image: Military rank of Colonel, FAR.)

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Filming military history

January 2, 2012

Cuban state media provides a brief history in a recent article on the Sección Fílmica del Departamento de Instrucción de las FAR (Film Section of the Department of Instruction of the Cuban Armed Forces) created in 1967, which filmed the Cuban military’s missions in Algeria, Guinea, Syria, Angola, Nicaragua, and Vietnam for propaganda purposes. (See here for [...]

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Investing in Cuba is highly risky

January 1, 2012

Dun & Bradstreet’s Country Risk Services forecasts plans to modernise the economy [in Cuba] will help to limit firms’ losses and improve performance, however, assesses the country as a high risk associated with the “overall political, economic and commercial performance” for 2012.

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