Ministry of Interior

Intro to Cuban Intel

July 19, 2011

The Virginia-based Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI CENTRE) is offering a one-day introductory counterintelligence course on “one of the most effective and least known of the Communist intelligence organizations: the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence (DI) of the Ministry of Interior.” The course covers the “qualifications, selection process, and training of Cuban intelligence officers and [...]

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Military and security’s entities and enterprises

October 18, 2010

The 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) [...]

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Cuban delegation attends Russian security exhibition

May 18, 2010

Civil Defense Chief Division General Ramón Pardo Guerra, who arrived in Moscow last Sunday, met with Russian Minister of Emergency Situation Serguei Shoigu and attended today the inauguration ceremony of the  2010 Intergrated Safety and Security Exhibition (ISSE) fair at the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow, reports Cuban state media. Fair exhibits include Fire Protection, Rescue Equipment, Security [...]

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Settling of scores

April 20, 2010

Former Chilean leftist Senator Carlos Ominami (whose adoptive son is Marco Enríquez-Ominami, a Socialist who ran as an independent in the recent Chilean presidential election supported by Max Marambio) said the distancing of the Cuban regime with businessman Max Marambio (background here and here) is due to a “settling of scores” after the departure of Fidel [...]

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Democratic control of CuIS in post communist Cuba

September 11, 2009

The Cuban Intelligence Services (CuIS) found within the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of the Armed Forces, and the Cuban Communist Party could hamper or promote a transition toward democracy when Communism passes as a form of government. Romania’s experience offers examples of which path a post-Communist government can undertake in restructuring its intelligence services [...]

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Jane’s World Armies: Cuba

July 11, 2008

Assessment The collapse of the Soviet Union has deprived the Cuban Army of its major economic and logistic support, and has had a significant impact on equipment numbers and serviceability. The army remains well trained and professional in nature, and is likely to have adopted previous doctrine to take into account the current shortcomings in [...]

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