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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.