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• Police training in stability ops

  8 September 2010 at 0009 in Commentary, Government, Havana, International Relations, Paramilitary, Police, Population, US

  The U.S. Army War College‘s Strategic Studies Institute published last month a monograph authored by Colonel (Ret.) Dennis E Keller, entitled “U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap.” Col. Keller gives a historical overview of U.S. foreign police training, where the “U.S. government is poorly [...]

• Structure of Cuban state enterprise groups

  7 September 2010 at 0012 in Economy, Government, Havana, International Relations, Spain

  The Spanish Embassy’s Office for Economic & Commercial Affairs in Havana published an informative 118-page study earlier this year on the administrative structure of Cuban state enterprise groups. This study provides an outline of the Cuban economic system controlled by the state and a general understanding of how the Cuban enterprise system functions. (Image: Embajada de España—Oficina Económica y [...]

• Battle at Escambray

  6 September 2010 at 1644 in Armed Forces, Fidel Castro, Opposition, Paramilitary, Population, Violence

  Juan Tamayo of El Nuevo Herald has a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Battle at Escambray (the last armed internal combat against the Castro dictatorship.) Fifty years ago, Rivera was one of up to 4,000 Cubans battling Castro’s brand new government in a little-known, but nasty guerrilla war that raged in parts of [...]