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Cuban development of UAVs?

October 4, 2011

The recent news of Hezbollah guerrillas operating in Cuba, prompts a question: Is the Cuban government being advised by these terrorists in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)? Hezbollah, with the assistance from Iran, has at least three different kinds of UAVs and an Iranian aircraft that could reach long distances and attack specific targets on the ground that [...]

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Former senior US military officers urge Cuba policy change

September 15, 2010

Former senior officers of the United States Armed Forces have sent a letter to President Obama urging him “to repeal the full travel ban on all Americans and engage the Cuban government in dialogue on key bi-lateral security issues,” reports The Havana Note (a blog by the public policy institute and think tank, New America Foundation.) General James T. [...]

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Threat or Paranoia?

September 3, 2010

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London-based independent think tank engaged in defense and security research, asks in its analysis of Cuba, how much of a threat does the Communist regime really pose to the world’s only superpower: Raúl’s position as head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – FAR), who were [...]

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A security risk

July 27, 2010

Jerry Bremer, CEO of Criminal Justice International Associates via Mexidata.com asks whether Cuba continues to pose a security risk to anyone in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba’s Interior Ministry reportedly consists of approximately 20,000 officials assigned to their security and intelligence apparatus, along with an estimated 50,000 Cuban nationals in various official missions in Venezuela. Castro’s [...]

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Banned from military service and the death penalty

May 30, 2010

Esquire magazine takes a look at the statistics of countries that ban gays from serving in the military and that also embrace the death penalty. Cuba, along with 16 other countries (see above infographic), ban homosexuals from serving in the military and also execute people. The others are: China, Egypt, Iran, Jamaica, Nigeria, North Korea, [...]

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Cuban intelligence controls Venezuela’s security apparatus

January 12, 2010

The Cuban Intelligence Service (CuIS) “totally manages” Venezuelan security and has collaborated in implementing the “Iranian apparatus” in the South American country, reaffirmed several experts at a forum titled ”History of Cuban Espionage and its presence in Venezuela” held in Miami today, reports EFE.

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