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Small arms transfers to Cuba

July 26, 2011

The Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers has “the only on-line global database of small arms transfers”. Small arms, according to the Initiative, consist of weapons such as rifles, pistols and shotguns; and light weapons include mortars, machine guns and man-portable missile launchers. While perusing their database I found the following entries representing small arms [...]

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China-Cuba cooperation in security and law enforcement

September 1, 2010

The Chinese government expects to increase cooperation with Cuba in security and law enforcement stated Zhou Yongkang, an important leader of the Chinese Communist Party. “We should work together to safeguard in a joint manner the security and interests of both nations,” said Zhou, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in [...]

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Security forces forcibly remove women in Havana protest

March 17, 2010

Police forcibly took some 30 women off the streets Wednesday as they marched in a protest led by the mother of a political prisoner who died in a hunger strike, an AFP journalist witnessed. The “Ladies in White” were heckled by hundreds of government supporters as they marched through Havana with the mother of Orlando [...]

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National police recruiting ‘secret agents’

August 24, 2009

Cuba’s National Police has made a public recruitment (an announcement made in Cuban state media) of men and women between the ages of 18-40 who posses adequate political and moral conditioning, and a love for investigating and risk, reported the Spanish news agency EFE last week. The special operations unit of the National Police, which [...]

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Noted blogger summoned by police

December 3, 2008

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