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One of the main institutions of Cuban higher education in the agricultural field, that immersed in the Battle of Ideas and Universalization of knowledge, in close alliance with the environment and integrated with the national research centers INCA, National Center for Animal Health CENSA and Institute of Animal Science ICA, contributes, through technical scientific activity and university extension, to the sustainable development of Cuban society and in particular the province of Havana, with a marked internationalist vocation, in a cohesive revolutionary environment that its workers and students guarantee with high responsibility and professionalism. It is attached to the Ministry of Higher Education.

Since its creation in 1976, it is part of a Scientific Science Complex integrated to the Ministry of Higher Education. At one time it was identified as the Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Havana (ISCAH); today its protagonists recognize it as the UNAH, but likewise, it is the only one of its kind in the province and the main one in agricultural studies in the country, where the specializations of Mechanization, Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine, Accounting and Finance and Sociocultural Studies are taught.

The Agrarian University of La Habana was founded on September 7, 1976, with the name of Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Havana. It is located at Km. 23 and a half, from the National Highway and 4 Km From the municipality of San José de las Lajas.

It is the oldest of Cuban Agricultural Universities, and its roots are in the University of Havana, in the School of Agricultural Sciences in 5ta de los Molinos, to which belonged the Schools of Agronomy and Veterinary. In 1972, both faculties were transferred to the Finca Guayabal, now the Teaching Unit, due to the need to broaden the horizons of the students, to bring them into direct contact with the environment, besides that the studies of Agronomy were considered as empirical due to the few practice in the field and the country after the triumph of the Revolution required a scientific agriculture.

The territory of San José de las Lajas was chosen because of its agricultural development. The Institute of Animal Science, the National Center for Animal Health and the National Institute of Agricultural Science were already in the territory, forming a Scientific Teaching Complex for the training of professionals, able to face the new challenges.

Initially there were two careers: Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanization.

It is made up of six Faculties:

Agronomy: Plant Biology and Health, Chemistry, Irrigation, Drainage and Soil Science, Agricultural Production
Veterinary Medicine
Mechanization of agricultural production: Industrial, Repair, Exploitation of the Machinery Park, Repair of the Machinery Park, Basic Sciences, Informatics
Social and Humanistic Sciences
Economic Sciences: Group of Theory and Techniques of Direction, Economy and Agricultural Administration, Accounting.
Physical Culture

Attached Institutions

Center of Studies of Higher Agricultural Education
Center for Agricultural Mechanization (CEMA)
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (CEDAR)

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The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is the longest in the history of humanity, it is the highest expression of a cruel and inhuman policy, lacking legality and legitimacy and deliberately designed to provoke hunger, diseases and despair in the Cuban population.

The United States Government, far from ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against the Republic of Cuba, has maintained in force the laws, provisions and practices that support it. Political, administrative and repressive mechanisms have been strengthened for more effective and deliberate implementation.

For successive US administrations, such a policy has been an essential part of its policy of hostility and aggression against the irreducible Cuban people.

The damage done has been uncountable in all sorts of life, the fighting capacity of those born on the rebel Island, has been an impregnable stronghold against the evil intentions of the imperial law.

On December 17, 2014, in a simultaneous locution, the presidents of Cuba, Raul Castro Ruz and Barack Obama of the United States announced the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

US President Barack Obama acknowledged the failure of the policy of economic blockade against Cuba and the need to make a change in this direction.

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It belongs to the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and was founded on February 25, 1972. It is located in the municipality Caimito, Artemisa province.

The idea of creating a place dedicated to the attention of solidarity and friends who would come to know the Cuban reality came from the comrade Fidel Castro Ruz.

It all started when young people from 27 nations came to Cuba. Its objective was to build a basic secondary school in the countryside and 28 homes for workers in Los Naranjos Genetic Plan in less than six months. The idea emerged during a visit of a delegation from the World Federation of Democratic Youth to educational centers in the countryside.

Subsequently, the conditions were created to accommodate the international brigade members who have visited the country for more than 36 years, not only to provide their selfless work contribution but also to exchange with entities of all kinds, thus contributing to the dissemination of the true reality of Cuba and against the blockade imposed on the Island.

It has hosted, among others, the Nordic brigades, "Antonio Maceo" (United States), "Cross of the South" (Australia and New Zealand), "Carlos Roloff" (Poland), "Tupac Amaru" (Peru). He has received groups from several Latin American countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo and Jamaica. It hosted the 1st and 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Encounter of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba.

On July 30, 1972, Jorge Dimitrov secondary school was concluded, now Camilo Cienfuegos military school, and the 28 homes for workers of Los Naranjos Genetic Plan. Everything was done in less than six months. The center that sheltered the brigadistas was not demolished nor changed the sense that gave rise to it. It became International Camp and kept the name of Julio Antonio Mella, in honor to that initiative that did transcend the value of the voluntary work. It has changed a lot since that February of 1972, but time rejuvenates it, as well as the warmth of its workers and the trace of affection left by its visitors.

Objectives:

• Solidarity with the struggle of the Cuban people to dignify the human race.

• To inform the reality of the Cuban people and the achievements of the Revolution.

• To serve as a link between solidarity groups with Cuba at the national level.

• To motivate systematic and coordinated work among national groups.

• To provide support material for solidarity work.

• To help break the information blockade imposed on Cuba by the big news chains that directly affect the country.

Nowadays

To talk about the International Camp "Julio Antonio Mella" in Caimito, it is necessary to start by informing that are awarded with the banner of National Vanguard, it is necessary to look at all times: the past, the present and the future, to be able to assess the immense value of this center, open wide to the friends of Cuba in the whole world and open to any work that dignifies the human condition.

Since its founding, the International Camp has sheltered more than 55,000 brigadistas from all five continents, people who have come to the Island with the intention of knowing the reality of the country, not the one that appears in the mass media, but the one that pulsates in every street and every house, and almost never occupies space in these multi-million dollar media or occupies them in a lamentable way.

With the help of the hands of those brigadistas (whites, blacks, mestizos, women, children ...), there have been many works of the educational, medical and residential sectors in Caimito, such as the construction of the Los Naranjos community, Doctors’ offices in the municipality and the Rehabilitation Room in Ceiba del Agua; The total repair of Miguel Perera Elementary School in the town of Vereda Nueva and the refurbishment of the Jorge Dimitrov Pre-university Institute (Ceiba 7), works of undeniable weight in the Battle of Ideas, but which are a minimum of what was contributed during 24 Years, by brothers who defend the cause of the revolutionary process anywhere and under any flag.

In addition to the contribution to Cuban construction and citrus fields, there has also been a contribution in foreign exchange for the purchase of medicines, materials and resources, denied by the reactionary forces, and a sustained and fruitful work in their countries of origin, which increases day by day the prestige of the Cuban nation in the eyes of the planet. The camp has become the venue for national events, training plans and congresses of foreign students in Cuba, for which it provides well-recognized accommodation and food services.

the Empire, a space of confrontation and debate to contribute to the liberation of these young people who protected their country from the jaws of terrorism. This work of love, constantly improving, could now fill thousands of beautiful pages in the history of solidarity among men around the world with those of an island that is always open, sincere and cordial.

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Graduated with Honors of International Relations. One of the Five young revolutionaries who infiltrated terrorist groups that from the main base of the anti-Cuban Mafia, Miami, organize their criminal attacks against Cuban territory. These activities are known by the United States government, as they have been reflected in official documents, by the press, and publicly recognized by its protagonists. He was arrested by the FBI on charges of espionage.

Fernando's job was to inform the Island authorities about terrorist machinations; And thus protect the lives and property of his countrymen.

He never intended to act against US national security. Nevertheless, he was the victim of a rigid and politicized process, totally unjust, in which, because the charges against him could not be proven, the US legislation itself was violated. A whole theater play prepared by the anti-Cuban terrorists, who celebrated their pyrrhic victory, when achieving the condemnation of the five.

On February 27, 2014, after serving a 17-year, 9-month sentence, he was released from Safford, Arizona, to be deported to Cuba. The following day he returned to Cuba and was received by relatives, friends and the high leaders of the State and the Cuban Government.

On February 24, 2015 he was decorated with the title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order Playa Girón.

He is currently the President of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples.

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Social organization officially constituted on December 30, 1960. It houses and promotes friendship between peoples and registers numerous brigades of solidarity that operate in different countries, whose members regularly visit Cuba, with which they establish links of cooperation.

ICAP was constituted with the objective of promoting and channeling, with universal projection, the solidarity relations that from its beginnings aroused the Cuban Revolution in all the confines of the world and thus to make feasible the interest of multiple representative groups of the popular and progressive sectors of The whole world to visit the island and to know from within the social, economic, and political transformations of the nascent Revolution, besieged since then by the hostile policy of the United States government.

The Institute has delegations in the special municipality Isla de la Juventud and in all provinces of the country, with the exception of Havana, directly attended by the Central Body.

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Political, former union leader and Venezuelan diplomat. He is the current constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela after being elected in the elections of April 14, 2013.

He was born in Caracas, November 23, 1962. He was a militant in the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200) and was a prominent activist for the freedom of Hugo Chavez when he was in prison for his participation in the 1992 military insurrection.

He was the national founder of the Bolivarian Workers' Force (FBT), being its National Coordinator. Member of the Constituent Assembly between August 1999 and August 2000.

He served as a deputy since 2000 and later served as President of the Venezuelan National Assembly from 2005 to 2006.

For almost 7 years (2006-2013), he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, from which he promoted the reinstatement of Venezuela's international relations, the nation's entry into MERCOSUR, and the founding of important regional spaces such as UNASUR and CELAC.

On October 10, 2012, three days after the October 6 presidential election, President Chavez appointed him as deputy president to replace Elías Jaua, who would assume the candidacy for the governorship of Miranda State.

Later, on December 8 of the same year, during a radio-television intervention in which Chávez announced a new surgical intervention in Cuba, he requested that in case of absolute lack, Maduro be chosen as his successor at the head of the Venezuelan presidency.

After the death of Chávez, on March 5, 2013, he served as president in charge of the Bolivarian nation until April 14, 2013 when he was elected president of Venezuela in presidential elections, being sworn in on April 19 of the same year.

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It is a place of singular historical value for being the scene of many of the main acts and events of the Cuban Revolution. In its great esplanade many Congress of the Party and several international events have been closed as well as acts of solidarity with friend nations, anniversaries of the assault on the Moncada Barracks, the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution and other important events, general assemblies of the people of Cuba, marches of the militant people, workers, military and student parades, ceremonies of graduation of students and initiation of pioneers, solemn and farewell acts of mourning. From its termination until July 16, 1961, it was called Plaza Civica.

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It is a body with constitutional and legislative power in the Republic of Cuba. It is made up of deputies elected by the free, direct and secret vote of the electors, in proportion and according to the procedure determined by law.

Revolutionary Government

The institutionalization of the Revolution began at the very moment when the whole system of the pseudo republic was disrupted, even though the revolutionary government performed functions with some provisionally degree during its first 15 years of existence.

As Fidel Castro explained at the First Party Congress:

"The Revolution did not hasten to provide definitive state forms for the country. It was not simply a matter of covering a record, but of creating solid, well thought-out and enduring institutions that responded to the realities of the country."

These years (1959 to 1975) were characterized by profound, radical and accelerated revolutionary changes, where successive and increasingly violent aggressions by imperialism and internal counterrevolution were also necessary.

In order to deal with the current situation, it was necessary to have an agile, operative and efficient state apparatus, which would represent the working people and be able to make rapid decisions without delay.

The revolutionary government, by concentrating on its legislative, executive and administrative powers, adequately fulfilled its functions throughout the first phase of struggle for survival: it dictated revolutionary laws, expropriated exploiters, developed basic social mutations, carried out successfully the political struggle against external and internal aggressions, supported massively by the people, the revolutionary government promoted in this period vast and profound political, economic, social and cultural transformations in Cuban life.

Popular Power

In 1974, the government decided to carry out an experiment in the province of Matanzas, in the west of the Island, on the establishment of the People's Power Bodies in the localities.

The objective of this experience was to confirm a series of criteria related to methodological forms for the better functioning of state representative institutions, as well as demographic, territorial issues and, among other relationships, administrative and business relations.

From the beginning of its application, the participation of the citizens in the tasks of local government and in the control of the administration was appreciated, as well as in the search for solutions to the problems that most affected the community.

The fruits of that experience were materialized in the decisions taken to establish the entire system of representative state institutions that culminated in the creation of the People's Power Bodies in the 169 municipalities and the 14 provinces in which the country is divided.

On October 10 and 17, 1976, on the first and second rounds of elections, 95.2% of all Cubans over the age of 16, by secret ballot and direct ballot, elected more than 30,000 10 725 delegates (councilmen) to the 169 municipal assemblies of the Popular Power (city councils).

Subsequently, with the constitution of the National Assembly of People's Power on December 2, 1976, the election of the Council of State, its President and Vice-Presidents, and the appointment of the Council of Ministers strengthened the democratic essence of the Revolution with more effective forms of participation in public life, which made possible a more direct intervention of the citizens in the direction of the affairs of the state and of all the activities of the society.

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It is an autonomous and non-profit non-governmental organization. The work of the Society is based on the principle of internalizing Martí, to know his thoughts, his sense of honesty, his friendship, his ethical-moral values, loyalty, love of justice and unconditional patriotism.

It was founded on October 20, 1995 by a group of outstanding and prestigious Cuban intellectuals committed to defending the best of Cuban political and philosophical traditions and of the Martí’s ideals.

These intellectuals were Armando Hart, Cintio Vitier, Eusebio Leal, Abel Prieto, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Carlos Martí and Enrique Ubieta.

On that day, celebrating the Cuban Culture Day, this association was born, with a strong work destined to defend the right to the word, criticism, participation and frank and constructive debate within and with the Revolution.