Although, like similar organizations in other Communist countries the OPJM was inspired by, and in some of its superficial features derived from, the Boy Scouts, its primary goal is to train and educate children in the norms and views of a Marxist-Leninist society. Until 1966 the then Unión de Pioneros de Cuba (UPC) was somewhat selective, but it was …
Por: Vicente Morín Aguado. Antes de estallar la crisis de los cohetes en 1962 una flotilla de 4 submarinos llegó a Cuba, con la misión inicial de crear una base operativa en la isla. Al apartarse Krushev de la nefasta seducción castrista, el fue pospuesto, pero jamás abandonado. Resurgió a finales de los “setenta” al …
Los submarinos amenazan devolverle a Cuba la condición de territorio ruso en el Caribe Read More »
During the first United States intervention, the North American Trust Company of New York acted in Cuba as the government’s fiscal agent. In July 1901, these Cuban operations became the Banco Nacional de Cuba, and normal banking services were added, with branches throughout the island. Although it did not fulfill all functions of a central Bank, the …
The Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank was set up in December 1950 with a capital of $10,000,000 as an autonomous state institution to create and maintain the necessary financial facilities that would provide small farmers and industrialists with credit, mainly medium and long-term loans. These it apportioned equally between the agricultural and industrial sectors. BANFAIC …
BANCO DE FOMENTO AGRÍCOLA E INDUSTRIAL DE CUBA (BANFAIC) Read More »
Magazines have been important sources of information and entertainment for the general population in Cuba since the 1830s with (e.g..) the Revista Bimestre Cubana. The repressive administration of Miguel Tacón was a setback, with the 1840s only notable for the first general women’s’ titles such as El Colibrí (1847-1848), but publishing rebounded in the 1850s. Later 19th century …
*Por Vicente Morín Aguado El pasado 3 de julio, desde el salón plenario de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos en Ginebra, el Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, biólogo molecular, exigía justicia: el 25 de junio de 2018 le habían inoculado el virus del SIDA en el hospital provincial de Pinar del Río, registrado con el número …
Malas prácticas médicas, un eficaz instrumento de represión política en Cuba Read More »
From 1956 the Escambray Mountains were the focal point for several guerrilla groups. Early in 1958 the Directorio Revolucionario launched a guerrilla campaign in the Sierra del Escambray against Batista independent of that of Castro’s Movimiento Veintiseis de Julio in the Sierra Maestra. However their leaders quarreled and split their forces, those under Faure Chomón choosing to cooperate with a detachment …
A December 1955 offshoot of the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU), the Revolutionary Directorate promoted an insurrectionary response to Batista’s repression, and established contact with other opponents of the regime, including Fidel Castro Its March 1957 attack on the Presidential Palace failed to kill the president, but cost the life of its leader José A. Echeverría. Most of its remaining …
Por: Vicente Morín Aguado. La publicación íntegra del convenio de colaboración médica entre los gobiernos de Argelia y Cuba (mayo pasado, Journal Officiel argelino), ha sacudido la alfombra mágica llamada “colaboración internacionalista”, un negocio de billones de dólares, cuyas primicias ocuparon precisamente este país del noroeste africano. Los herederos de Fidel Castro no han de …
Médicos más militares igual a dólares: la fórmula de supervivencia del castro comunismo. Read More »
Cuba’s first organized Students’ Federation, created in late 1922 with Julio Mella as secretary and popular figurehead, in angry response to the corruption and incompetence of many professors at the University of Havana. Although its first important manifesto on January 10, 1923, concerned only university issues, it was regarded as a challenge to the Zayas government …
