March 6, 2011
According to a communique by the Cuban Defense Ministry (MINFAR) published in Juventud Rebelde, at about 20:00 on Saturday, March 5 there was an explosion at an ammunition dump in the municipality of Boyeros, Havana province. There were no reported injuries or deaths. The event activated the Municipal Defense Council. At 22:45 hours, joint forces of the [...]
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November 30, 2010
The deployment of the Cuban Intelligence Services (CuIS) in Venezuela is so deep that they enjoy “direct access” to President Hugo Chávez and often provide information not shared with the local intelligence services, as indicated by cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to the State Department, reports El País, in its review of Sunday’s Wikileaks [...]
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Military and security’s entities and enterprises
October 18, 2010The Cuban National Office of Statistics released this month, “Institutional Organization. Principal Entities,” a report with the “fundamental aim to show the number of entities per territory, organizational and economic activities according to the way judicial and administrative registers of the Office are organized.” In the case of the military (Ministry of Revoultionary Armed Forces—MINFAR) [...]