Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces

Senior Chinese military official to visit Cuba

October 23, 2011

Via Xinhuanet: Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, General Guo Boxiong left Beijing today to pay official goodwill visits to Cuba, Colombia and Peru. Guo was invited by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Colombia’s Defense Ministry and Peru’s Defense Ministry. Guo will meet state and military leaders and visit the armed forces and [...]

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Castroism prepares against the masses

July 22, 2010

La Verdad Obrera (LVO), a publication of the Argentine Socialist Workers Party, has an interesting critical piece on the recent political developments in Cuba from a Trotskyist perspective. The following incisive paragraphs were transcribed from the story: Bureaucracy and corruption Accompanying the announcement of prisoners being released and an economic adjustment is the corruption scandal at [...]

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Bolstering military ties between Cuba and Viet Nam

April 17, 2010

President Nguyen Minh Triet welcomed Chief of the General Staff of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, who is on a working visit to Viet Nam, reported Viet Nam News. Triet said he believed the visit would strengthen the friendship and co-operation between the two Parties, States and people, especially [...]

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Cuban media coverage of the military

March 19, 2010

The Federation of American Scientists has obtained a copy of an Open Source Center six-page report from late February 2010 on Cuban media coverage of the military, which has been positive. OSC assesses: President Raul Castro was atypically visible and engaged during a Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) exercise in late 2009, but more commonly he presents [...]

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Higher education for armed forces

December 9, 2009

Brigade General Rafael Ruiz Díaz (chief, Direction of MINFAR) is interviewed by Juventud Rebelde about the modifications to Order 18 providing opportunities offered by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias) to soldiers in Active Military Service to incorporated themselves in higher education. (H/T: Emilio Ichikawa)

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Military attaché highlights co-operation between armed forces

December 3, 2009

Cuban Embassy military attaché in Angola, Brigade General Rafael Moracen Limonta, on Wednesday in Luanda highlighted the continuity of the co-operation between the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), as well as between FAR and countries of the southern African region in various sectors. The diplomat spoke during FAR’s 53rd [...]

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