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Police training in stability ops
8 September 2010 at 0009 in Commentary, Government, Havana, International Relations, Paramilitary, Police, Population, US
The U.S. Army War College‘s Strategic Studies Institute published last month a monograph authored by Colonel (Ret.) Dennis E Keller, entitled “U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap.” Col. Keller gives a historical overview of U.S. foreign police training, where the “U.S. government is poorly [...]
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Structure of Cuban state enterprise groups
7 September 2010 at 0012 in Economy, Government, Havana, International Relations, Spain
The Spanish Embassy’s Office for Economic & Commercial Affairs in Havana published an informative 118-page study earlier this year on the administrative structure of Cuban state enterprise groups. This study provides an outline of the Cuban economic system controlled by the state and a general understanding of how the Cuban enterprise system functions. (Image: Embajada de España—Oficina Económica y [...]
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Battle at Escambray
6 September 2010 at 1644 in Armed Forces, Fidel Castro, Opposition, Paramilitary, Population, Violence
Juan Tamayo of El Nuevo Herald has a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Battle at Escambray (the last armed internal combat against the Castro dictatorship.) Fifty years ago, Rivera was one of up to 4,000 Cubans battling Castro’s brand new government in a little-known, but nasty guerrilla war that raged in parts of [...]
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al-Shabaab terrorists smuggled into US via Cuba (Updated)
7 June 2010 at 1227 in Commentary, Government, Havana, International Relations, Somalia, US, Violence by Armando F. Mastrapa 3d
U.S. federal law enforcement agencies (FBI and ICE) are hunting down al-Shabaab terrorists (an ally of al Qaeda) who illegally entered the U.S. from Kenya through Cuba, reports the New York Daily News.
al-Shabaab is an Islamic terrorist group that controls much of southern Somalia, excluding the capital, Mogadishu. It has waged an insurgency (using guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics) against Somalia’s transitional government and its Ethiopian supporters since 2006.
About 300 Somalis were managed to be smuggled into the United States by an American, Anthony Joseph Tracy. He did this by making a deal with a Cuban diplomats in Kenya, who got the Somalis visas to visit Cuba, and then arranged for them to fly on to South America, where they were eventually smuggled across the Mexican border into the United States.
(This story was originally reported here in April, 2010.)
Tags: al-Shabaab, al-Shabaab fighters, Anthony Joseph Tracy, FBI, guerrilla warfare, ICE, Somalia, terrorist tactics, U.S. federal law enforcement agencies