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The ELAM offer to US students was classified as a "cultural exchange" program by the US State Department to avoid the restrictions of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The first intake of US students into ELAM occurred in spring 2001, with 10 enrolling in the pre-medical program. [6] [19] [21] [22]
The University of Havana, founded in 1727, is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the oldest in the Americas. In 1900 Cuba had a literacy rate of 36.1% [6] [7] - which was quite high for Latin America at the time. [8] By the early 1900s Cuba had a strong education system, but only half of the country's children participated.
Visa requirements for United States citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states that are imposed on citizens of the United States. As of 2025, holders of a United States passport may travel to 186 countries and territories without a travel visa , or with a visa on arrival .
A Cuban passport. Visa requirements for Cuban citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Cuba.. As of June 15, 2024, Cuban citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 62 countries and territories, ranking the Cuban passport 80th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index.
Under Compacts of Free Association, citizens of the following countries may enter, reside, study and work in the United States indefinitely without a visa. These benefits are granted to citizens from birth or independence , and to naturalized citizens who have resided in the respective country for at least five years, excluding those who ...
Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, Havana (ELAM) Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) Higher institutes ...
Cuba's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the government had detected a network operating from Russia to recruit Cuban citizens li Cuba arrests 17 for allegedly helping recruit some of its ...
A Cuban surgeon with scrub cap performing an open air operation in Guinea-Bissau for the PAIGC liberation movement, 1974. A 2007 academic study on Cuban internationalism surveyed the history of the program, noting its broad sweep: "Since the early 1960s, 28,422 Cuban health workers have worked in 37 Latin American countries, 31,181 in 33 African countries, and 7,986 in 24 Asian countries.