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The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba.They include Revolutionary Army, Revolutionary Navy, Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia (Milicias de Tropas Territoriales – MTT), Youth Labor Army (Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo – EJT), and the ...
Cuban soldiers (49 P) Pages in category "Cuban military personnel" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Also: Cuba: People: By occupation: Military personnel: Soldiers. Pages in category "Cuban soldiers" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Cuban state enterprises and many foreign companies on the island must open accounts with the bank if they want to operate in dollars, he added. How Cuba fooled the U.S. to get millions of dollars ...
The Cuban Navy today operates its own missile systems, the made-in-Cuba Bandera (a copy of the dated Styx Soviet missiles) and Remulgadas anti-ship missile systems, as well as the nationally produced Frontera self-propelled coastal defence multiple rocket launcher. The navy's principal threats are drug smuggling and illegal immigration.
The National Army represented the main means of repression during the military dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista who ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959 until his regime was overthrown by Castro's revolutionary forces. As of 1958, the Cuban Army was composed of 40,849 officers and soldiers and the Navy was made up of 6,963 members.
Later in life, he started a paramilitary organization called the "Cuban Liberation Army" (EJC). [2] Diaz was born in Guantánamo to a peasant family. His father Valentín Díaz y Díaz, was born in Galicia, and his mother, América Ané Galiano, was a Criollo - born in Cuba but to Spanish parents. [3]
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