Cuban military

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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Corruption probe in military-run business

December 13, 2011

Reuters reports: Cuba has detained top executives of the powerful military-run Tecnotex company, broadening a corruption investigation that has already shuttered three foreign firms, according to foreign business sources. Tecnotex’s director Fernando Noy was among those arrested, according to a foreign businessman who deals with the company. “They went right into the Tecnotex office and [...]

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Corrupt and despotic

September 7, 2011

In spite of all the homages paid to the late Cuban Defense Minister, Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro as a result of his death, he was also considered corrupt and despotic. According to a 1995 study on the Cuban military prepared for the Pentagon by International Research 2000,  ACG Casas Regueiro was “suspected of large scale corruption.” Furthermore, a section of the study [...]

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Quote of the day

July 26, 2011

“The consolidating of Raúl Castro in his position as successor to his brother Fidel confirms that his Cuba will give the military hegemony on a national scale, which makes seemingly impossible any serious political or economic opening in the near future.” Carlos Pérez Llana, former Argentine ambassador to France, in his op-ed “El ejército en Cuba arma nuevo orden,” published [...]

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Military equipment modernization is cost-prohibitive

May 7, 2011

“Cuba is very interested in modernizing its military equipment that date to the Soviet era, but lack financial resources,” stated Polina Temérina, an analyst at the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), to RIA Novosti. She further added: “Cuba has, on more than one occasion, asked Russia to modernize its arsenals but the problem continues [...]

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