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Ministry Of The Revolutionary Armed Forces (Cuba)
The Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba ( es, Ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – MINFAR), also known as the Ministry of the FAR, is a Cuban military agency which is the executive body of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. The current Minister of the FAR is Corps General and longtime Chief of Staff Álvaro López Miera. Leadership structure * First Secretary – Miguel Díaz-Canel * Commander in Chief – Miguel Díaz-Canel * Minister of the FAR – Álvaro López Miera * Chief of Staff – Álvaro López Miera Responsibilities The MINFAR directs, controls, and executes the policy of the Communist Party of Cuba and the government regarding the activities of the readiness of the nation to defend itself. It is responsible for the budget of the military, as well as for making arms deals with other countries. This ministry fulfills these obligations in coordination with other government agencies and institutions. The powers and functions of the M ...
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Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba
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The city has a population of 2.3million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the
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Leopoldo Cintra Frías
Leopoldo Cintra Frías is a Cuban military and political leader. Cintra was the former Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba. Military career He participated in the Cuban Revolution in November 1957 at the age of 16. His first actions were to sell bonds, distribute bread in a van, and transport people to the mountains. He later joined the Column 1 José Martí, which was commanded by Fidel Castro, where he remained until the end of the revolution. He accompanied Fidel Castro on his journey from the Oriente Province to Havana, in the commonly known ''Freedom Caravan''. Cintra was sent to Prague (Czechoslovakia) to study Artillery in 1960. Upon his return to Cuba, he was appointed head of the artillery and infantry units in the FAR. He finished his studies at the Superior Basic School in 1962 and passed the Superior Academic Course in 1967. Cintra led a large unit of Cuban tanks in Angola and Ethiopia in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s. He graduated in 1982 fr ...
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Government Ministries Of Cuba
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed governme ...
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Military Of Cuba
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba. They include ground forces, naval forces, air and air defence forces, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia (''Milicias de Tropas Territoriales'' – MTT), Youth Labor Army (''Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo'' – EJT), and the Defense and Production Brigades (''Brigadas de Producción y Defensa'' – BPD), plus the Civil Defense Organization (''Defensa Civil de Cuba'' – DCC) and the National Reserves Institution (''Instituto Nacional de las Reservas Estatales'' – INRE). All these groups are subordinated to the ''Ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias'' (" Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces" – MINFAR). The armed forces have long been the most powerful institution in Cuba. The military manages many enterprises in key economic sectors representing about 4% of the Cuban economy. The military has also served as forme ...
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Ministry Of The Interior (Cuba)
The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Cuba (), also known as MININT, is the Cuban government ministry which oversees the home affairs of Cuba. Its headquarter is in a building of Plaza de la Revolución, a central and famous square of Havana. History It was founded on June 6, 1961, replacing and expanding the old Ministry of the Interior (''Ministerio de Gobernación''), inherited by the Cuban Revolution from the previous governments. Functions The organs and structures that are part of the Minister fulfill functions of citizen security, and the establishment of the internal order. The MININT also includes various logistics agencies, force preparation, etc. In addition, it has commercial companies that provide security services as SEPSA (Specialized Protection Services, S.A.), SEISA or ACERPROT), which include chain stores selling to the population. The Ministry oversees the functions of security and public order through the National Revolutionary Police Force (PNR) an ...
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Ministry Of Science, Technology And Environment (Cuba)
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba (), also known as CITMA, is the Cuban government ministry which oversees state politics in matters of science, technology, environment and the usage of nuclear energy. Its headquarter is in a building of ''Calle Línea'', a street of central Havana next to the Malecón, and part of Vedado, a ward of the municipal borough of Plaza de la Revolución. History It was founded in 1994, as successor of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. The current minister, Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, in office from 2012, was preceded by José Miguel Miyar Barruecos, minister from March 2009 to March 2012.Article
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Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( es, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores), also known as MINREX, is the Cuban government ministry which oversees the foreign relations for defense of Cuba as the socialist homeland. It was established on December 23, 1959, instead of the Ministry of State (''Ministerio de Estado'') to confront the hostile offensive of the United States. Ministers See also * Council of Ministers of Cuba * Ministry of the Interior of Cuba (MININT) * Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) References External links *Ministry of Foreign Affairs*Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Foreign Affairs Foreign relations of Cuba Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
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Military Counterintelligence Directorate
The Dirección de Contra-Inteligencia Militar (Military Counterintelligence Directorate) is the military intelligence department of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) of Cuba. It only provides military intelligence for the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, unlike its non-military counterpart, the Dirección de Inteligencia. It is closely connected with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, based upon a 14 June 1993 agreement on military cooperation between the two countries. It is focused on collecting information on the United States Armed Forces operations at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. It has an attached elite troop unit: the Special Destination Unit (UDE). Its chief for several years was Major General Jesús Bermúdez Cutiño, as well as General Gandarilla Bermejo. See also *Intelligence Directorate Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, r ...
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Dirección De Inteligencia
The Intelligence Directorate ( es, Dirección de Inteligencia, DI), commonly known as G2 and, until 1989, named Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI),Dirección de Inteligencia
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is the main state intelligence agency of the government of . The DI was founded in late 1961 by Cuba's Ministry of the Interior shortly after the . The DI is responsible for all foreign intelligence collection and comprises six divisions divided into two categories, which are the Operational Divisions and the Support Divisions.
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Council Of Ministers (Cuba)
The Council of Ministers (Spanish: ''Consejo de ministros''), also referred to as simply the Cabinet of Cuba, is the highest ranking executive and administrative body of the Republic of Cuba, and constitutes the nation's government. It consists of the President, the First Vice President and the five Vice Presidents of the Council of State, the Secretary of the Executive Committee, the heads of the national ministries, and other members as established by law. The Executive Committee is a smaller body, consisting of the President and Vice Presidents of the Council of State, the Secretary and those ministers chosen by the President. The Council of Ministers is responsible for the implementation of policy agreements authorized by the National Assembly of People’s Power. These are designated to individual ministries. The council also proposes general plans for economic and social development, which are in turn authorized by the National Assembly twice yearly. The Council of Minister ...
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Julio Casas Regueiro
Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro (February 18, 1936 – September 3, 2011) was a Cuban politician. He was a vice-president of the Council of State and the Minister of Defense. Previously, Regueiro was the Deputy Minister of MINFAR in charge of Economic Activity and was in charge of Cuba's holding company, GAE SA, which is the holding company for the commercial activities belonging to MINFAR, the Cuban Armed Forces Ministry. It manages much of Cuba's lucrative tourist industry (such as the company Gaviota) along with agriculture, import-export businesses, retail stores and other enterprises. On February 24, 2008, he was named as one of Cuba's Vice-presidentsAnita Snow"Raul Castro Becomes Cuba's Leader" Associated Press, February 24, 2008. and as Minister of Defense, succeeding long-time Defense Minister Raúl Castro, who was named as President of Cuba on the same day.
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Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba. They include ground forces, naval forces, air and air defence forces, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia (''Milicias de Tropas Territoriales'' – MTT), Youth Labor Army (''Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo'' – EJT), and the Defense and Production Brigades (''Brigadas de Producción y Defensa'' – BPD), plus the Civil Defense Organization (''Defensa Civil de Cuba'' – DCC) and the National Reserves Institution (''Instituto Nacional de las Reservas Estatales'' – INRE). All these groups are subordinated to the ''Ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias'' (" Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces" – MINFAR). The armed forces have long been the most powerful institution in Cuba. The military manages many enterprises in key economic sectors representing about 4% of the Cuban economy. The military has also served as forme ...
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