In late 1961 and early 1962, and led by the head of the Revolutionary Guidance Commission, first of the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations, and after the United Party of the Socialist Revolution, Cesar Escalante Dellundé, steps were taken to the institutionalization, which culminated in the signing of Law 1 030, which validated the creation of the Cuban Institute of Broadcasting, on May 24, 1962. In 1975 the name underwent a change and became known as the Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT), with the same attributions.

Radio

The first station that transmitted in Cuba was the 2LC of Luis Casas Romero, on August 22, 1922. October 10, 1922, first transmission of the PWX, is officially considered like the inauguration of the broadcasting in Cuba, the inaugural speech of the then President of the Republic Alfredo Zayas was broadcasted, in Spanish and English for the American people. Since its beginnings until the decade of the thirty the radio maintained a programming based fundamentally in the information and the entertainment. On February 24, 1959, Radio Rebelde, station of the Revolution broadcasted from the Sierra Maestra. By the end of 1959 there were 156 radio repeaters in the country. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, changes in the radio take place. In 1960, the Free Broadcasters Front (FIEL) was created, which provided the Cuban State with the facilities and operation of its services. On May 1, 1961 the International radio station Radio Habana Cuba was inaugurated. After the revolutionary triumph the state has worked so that the radio signal could be captured throughout the national territory and reflects the socioeconomic development, with a network of national, provincial, municipal and local broadcasters that make up the Cuban Radio Subsystem. The National Radio Network has 69 radio stations and 82 municipal studios distributed throughout the country.

TV

During the first half of the 1940s in the 20th century, several commercial television channels were inaugurated in the USA. A fact that very soon had repercussions in Cuba for the existence of a strong, vast and successful radio system with commercial objectives, which even reached an incipient concentration of stations in which they would later be important national multimedia groups, also boosted by the excellent relations between the US electronic signatures and the main executives and radios companies located in Havana, reflecting the intimate political relationship from the Government itself.

Paradoxically, chance wanted the first demonstration of television in our country to be carried out by a Cuban marriage, independently of the entire structure of existing radio power, who became, without thinking, sponsors and protagonists of this historical event. The story began for them when traveling to New York for their honeymoon. There they were dazzled by this invention and made the decision to take the first steps with executives of American television stations, to develop a television exhibition in Havana.

On October 24, 1950, the first television channel was officially inaugurated, which established regular television transmission operations in Cuba. With this, our country, along with Mexico and Brazil in the same quarter of 1950, integrated the founding trilogy. On October 12, the test transmission period began with fixed views and interviews that were held until the inauguration day at the Presidential Palace (now the Museum of the Revolution). The ceremony was transmitted by a mobile remote control unit that sent the signal to the plant and from there to the TV receivers already existing in the city of Havana. The first televising programs were the Baseball games from the Cerro’s Stadium and the shows carried out from the rented theaters that were conjugated with a reduced number of programs of the musical, humoristic and commercial wedges genres produced in sets. Thanks to this operative solution that broke the traditional molds in TV, the support of the programming of Channel 4 was solved, in its first stage of transmission.

After creating our television system (since 1960 for public service purposes and in terms of culture, education, training and information for the whole society), Televisión Cubana currently has four national channels (two of them specialized in educational topics), 15 territorial tele centers (in all provinces and the special Municipality of Isla de la Juventud), an international signal Cuba vision International (www.cubavision.cubaweb.cu) and TV Serrana a community video producer based in the Sierra Maestra east of country. It is born as an important option Multivision, which covers more than 50 percent of the national territory.

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Organization with cultural and artistic aims that selectively and voluntarily the most important writers, artists, intellectuals and promoters of all Cuba, young people up to 35 years.

Since its creation the AHS is committed to the work of its associates, all young people with a truly revolutionary culture linked to the life of the Cuban people, to which the organization is primarily responsible. That is why the objectives of work are related to stimulating artistic and literary creation among its members and fostering spaces for theoretical discussion on the participation of the intellectual avant-garde.

For more than twenty years the organization has functioned as an interface between the areas of greatest aesthetic risk within artistic and literary production and the different entities of the institutional system of culture, a relationship that has been concentrated through concrete promotional alternatives and through the creation of spaces for theoretical discussion that guarantee the formal and conceptual framework appropriate for the most revolutionary of art and literature carried out by young people.

Young writers, artists and cultural promoters up to the age of 35 may be members of the AHS who accept these statutes and are approved for admission. When the associate arrives at the age of 36, he or she will cease as a member; except those holding management positions in the AHS, who will remain until the end of their term.

Those interested in joining the Association will submit a written request to the corresponding Provincial Directorate, with an artistic-literary curriculum and a sample of their work. The manner in which the process of entry will be carried out is established in the regulations of the Organization.

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It is one of the 11 municipalities of Mayabeque province, located in its northern part and characterized for its beaches. It is of singular importance the exploitation of the tourism in this zone, in which camping bases like Los Cocos, Peñas Blancas, Las Caletas, among others, can be found along its coast.

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Institution that has the state responsibility to conduct research for the prevention, diagnosis and control of exotic and quarantine diseases in animal species and crops of economic interest.

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Association of a social nature, constituted according to the legislation in force in the country, with the purpose of grouping radio amateurs and Cuban listeners who so wish. At present, more than 98 percent of Cuban radio amateurs are members of this organization.

Among its objectives it has:

* to take the measures that propitiate the growth of the activity of the Radio amateur in the country according to the national and international technical development.
 * to organize the Cuban Radio Amateurs that are members of it through the Radio Clubs and Special Radio Clubs that will be directed and controlled through the Subsidiaries of each province.
 * to direct the work of the Cuban Amateur Radio to patriotic, scientific and cultural objectives, which will actively allow the integration of Radio amateurs to the tasks of building socialist society in Cuba, within the moral and ethical principles of the Revolution.
 * Ensure compliance with the Code of Ethics of the Cuban Amateur Radio and for the observance of the Laws and Regulations that regulate Radio Amateurs, both during the development of the activity by its members, and in their relations with State Organizations and Institutions On occasion of it.
 * to promote the development of the different modalities existing in the Radio amateurs.
 * to strengthen relations with political and mass organizations or state institutions of their level and achieve integration of Radio Aficio in political and social activities, as well as those linked to production and defense.
 * to establish and develop relationships with foreign Amateur Radio organizations with the purpose of exchanging experiences, determining collaboration and developing other activities of Radio amateurs.

One of the facets of radio amateur, and perhaps the best known by the population given its impact and the disclosure it provokes in the media, is undoubtedly its participation in emergencies due to natural disasters and extreme situations.

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It is an annual exercise carried out by the Civil Defense of Cuba with the objective of preparing its members and the population in general in different situations of disaster. It has a national character and it involves, in addition to the Civil Defense, all state agencies and institutions and the civilian population.

Although during the exercise they perform different drills related to forest fires, earthquakes, landslides and other disaster situations, the main exercises focus on preparing Cuba to deal with hurricanes of great intensity, which the Island often suffers due to its geographic location.

This exercise allows increasing and verifying the preparation, planning and organization of Civil Defense tasks.

Meteoro contributes to put Cuba in a better position to face dangers and minimize human and economic damages, derived from extreme meteorological events or not.

This training reveals the concern of the Cuban State to preserve the lives of people, goods and economic resources.

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It is the largest financial institution of regional development of this type and its origin dates back to the Inter-American Conference of 1890. Its headquarters is in the city of Washington DC (United States). It arose with the supposed purpose of financing viable economic, social and institutional development projects and promoting regional trade integration in the Latin American and Caribbean area, but it was essentially a mechanism of domination and penetration of US imperialism.

The IDB is currently the largest regional development bank in the world and has served as a model for other similar institutions at the regional and subregional levels. Although it was born within the Organization of American States (OAS), it has no relationship with this Pan American institution, nor with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or with the World Bank. The bank's ordinary capital amounts to about US $ 101 billion.

The Bank is headed by a committee of governors that uses a 14-member Executive Board to oversee the operation of the institution by relying on a management team. The Assembly elects the President for a period of 5 years and the members of the Board of Directors for a term of 3 years.

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It is a country located in the southeast of South America. Its territory, with an area of more than 176,000 km ², is the second smaller of the subcontinent behind Surinam and limits to the north and northeast with the state of Rio Grande del Sur (Brazil) and to the west, with the provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes (Argentina) from which it is separated by the Uruguay River.

On the south it has coasts on the Rio de la Plata, which separates it from the province of Buenos Aires and the city of Buenos Aires, and on the southeast, it has coasts on the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided administratively into 19 departments.

According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), it is the third country in Latin America (after Argentina and Chile), which has the highest Human Development Index (HDI). It is also the fifth country in Latin America (after Cuba, Costa Rica, Chile, and Ecuador), with the highest life expectancy, respectively. It is the third country in South America (after Argentina and Chile), with the highest GDP per capita, and the tenth country in Latin America (after Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia respectively), with the highest GDP.

The republic has a presidential system and its government is divided into three independent powers

Executive power: where the president is, who is both the head of state and the head of government, and the council of ministers.

Legislative power: organized in a bicameral way, with senators and deputies along with the vice president, who conforms the legislative power and not the executive as many times erroneously places it, therefore the vice president of the Republic is also the President of the General Assembly.

Judicial Branch: headed by the Supreme Court of Justice, is in charge of applying the judicial rules.

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It is the institution responsible for storing, restoring, preserving, promoting and researching the works that are part of Cuba's plastic heritage. It has the most important collection of Cuban art, which stretches from the 16th century to the present day. It includes 19th century colonial engravings, works produced between 1898 and 1920 (academic painting), the artistic avant-gardes of the first half of the twentieth century and the series by the great Cuban masters such as Fidelio Ponce, Victor Manuel, Carlos Enríquez and Wifredo L.

The exhibition spaces, renovated architecturally and museum graphically, and equipped with modern systems of lighting, air conditioning, environmental control and integral security, are organized in eight main thematic areas, which include 24 rooms or spaces designed to be visited sequentially or from Alternatives of free choice.

The collections encompassed under the name of Universal Art are housed in another building, former headquarters of the Asturian Center, near the Central Park of Havana, and include thematic sets of works from all areas or important areas of Western art, which determines that The National Museum surpasses other similar institutions of Latin America. Among these collections stand out the one of Spanish art, with the most important painters of century XIX (Sorolla, Lucas Velázquez, Mariano Fortuny, Raimundo de Madrazo and Zuloaga); That of English portraits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; And the collection of ancient classical art, with a rich set of sculptural and ceramic pieces from Egypt, Greece and Rome.

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