The Soviet Military Awards Page Forum  
  • Serial Numbers Database 2.0
Enter Here

vBClassified Featured Listings
Echoes of War
Echoes of War
Seeking following Soviet campaign medals for ..,

Go Back   The Soviet Military Awards Page Forum > Soviet Awards Forums > Soviet Sphere > Republic Of Cuba

Republic Of Cuba República De Cuba 1st January 1959 -

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-24-2010, 04:54 PM   #1
pride
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Italia
Age: 39
Posts: 179
Ministry Of The Interior, MININT.

The Ministry of Interior is the principal entity of state security and control. Officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), which are led by Raul Castro, the President's brother, have been assigned to the majority of key positions in the Ministry of Interior in the past several years.


MININT ranks: Clases, Suboficiales y Oficiales Subalternos. For "Primeros Oficiales" and "Oficiales Superiores" the grades are on the collar shirt.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg clasesminints.jpg (9.2 KB, 2 views)
File Type: jpg subofysubalminint.jpg (10.9 KB, 1 views)
File Type: jpg primysupminint.jpg (10.0 KB, 5 views)
pride is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
Old 08-24-2010, 11:34 PM   #2
deValcourt
Senior Member
 
deValcourt's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Cajun Country
Age: 56
Posts: 1,565
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

Quote:
Originally Posted by pride View Post
The Ministry of Interior is the principal entity of state security and control. Officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), which are led by Raul Castro, the President's brother, have been assigned to the majority of key positions in the Ministry of Interior in the past several years.


MININT ranks: Clases, Suboficiales y Oficiales Subalternos. For "Primeros Oficiales" and "Oficiales Superiores" the grades are on the collar shirt.
Every Soviet leader appointed their most trusted "friends" to key positions in state security services even if they had to reorganize the entire system to do so. This was a simple matter of self-preservation (and fear).

Khrushchev had to have Beria arrested (later shot) and then dismantle the MVD because it had gotten too powerful and was full of Stalinists. He had to pull the MGB out of the MVD and reduce it to a "committee" (KGB) because the CPSU Central Committee was afraid of its power. Andropov was one of the few who was trusted enough to be left alone by the leadership for 15 years as head of the KGB. Most of his predecessors did not leave the security services peacefully.;)

Phillip
__________________
Phillip
deValcourt is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-25-2010, 12:51 AM   #3
pride
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Italia
Age: 39
Posts: 179
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

Quote:
Every Soviet leader appointed their most trusted "friends" to key positions in state security services even if they had to reorganize the entire system to do so. This was a simple matter of self-preservation (and fear).

Dear Phillip,

i agree with you, is the normal way of acting to safeguard the system that you created. Nothing unusual. :)
pride is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-25-2010, 01:12 AM   #4
pride
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Italia
Age: 39
Posts: 179
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

-
Attached Images
File Type: jpg cuba-drugs2.jpg (47.0 KB, 14 views)
File Type: jpg 2004pris4.jpg (32.4 KB, 10 views)
File Type: jpg 2004pris.jpg (26.3 KB, 11 views)

Last edited by pride; 08-25-2010 at 02:05 AM.
pride is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-25-2010, 02:50 AM   #5
pride
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Italia
Age: 39
Posts: 179
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

Border Guard [Tropas Guarda Fronteras - TGF]


The Border Guard [Tropas Guarda Fronteras - TGF] is controlled by the Interior Ministry. The Border Guard is variously estimated to consists of between 4,000 and 6,500 troops. They are equipped with three Soviet-built Stenka-class vessels, some 18 smaller Soviet-built Zhuk-class inshore patrol boats, and and numerous small boats and craft. As many as 9 ZHUK and oner STENKA inshore patrol craft have been withdrawn from service in recent years. The mission of the Border Guard is to control Cuba's frontiers, with emphasis on intercepting anti-Castro infiltrators and illegal emmigration. The Border Guard also counters drug trafficking and conducts search-and-rescue operations.

The Border Guard operates small coastal artillery garrisons in conjunction with the Cuban Army and Navy.

Cuba has intensified its efforts to stop Cubans from leaving the island. Since capturing speedboats is difficult, and the Border Guard is not authorized to use force to stop smugglers at sea, Cuba has focused on stopping people on land before they embark.

Cuba's Ministry of the Interior is responsible for drug law enforcement. The Cuban Border Guard conducts maritime drug interdiction and maintains liaison with the US Coast Guard. Although Cuba is not a major transit country for cocaine destined to the United States, drug traffickers continue to use Cuban waters and airspace to evade US interdiction assets. Go-fast boats from Jamaica routinely travel just inside Cuban waters to avoid contact with US vessels. Traffickers also fly small aircraft transporting cocaine from clandestine airfields on the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia through Cuban air space. Cocaine bales are dropped in the general area of Guinchos Cay/Cay Lobos, in or near Cuban waters. The cocaine usually is retrieved by Bahamian go-fast boats that take the drugs to The Bahamas for further transshipment to the United States.

According to the Cuban government, the Cuban Border Guard interdicts ninety percent of the drugs that Cuban law enforcement authorities seize. The lead investigative law enforcement agency on drugs in Cuba is the Ministry of the Interior’s National Anti-Drug Directorate (DNA). The DNA is comprised of a variety of law enforcement, intelligence, and youth affairs and education organizations. The US Coast Guard and Cuba’s Border Guard have exchanged information on a case-by-case basis which, on certain occasions, has led to the apprehension of several boats and crews involved in drug trafficking. At Havana’s Marina Hemingway, Border Guard officials detected on at least three occasions the presence of narcotics involving US-flagged vessels, two of which were ordered out of the country; the results were shared with US law enforcement officials.

Cuba’s decaying infrastructure, declining operations budgets, and sporadic fuel shortages have hampered enforcement efforts. The island’s 3500 nautical miles of coastline and more than 4000 sparsely populated islets and cays present an inviting environment for both air and maritime smuggling. In the past three years, the Government of Cuba (GOC) claims to have focused its attention on non-commercial boats and small aircraft, with a resulting increase in seizures and disrupted smuggling attempts.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg border6.jpg (25.9 KB, 7 views)
File Type: jpg border9.jpg (28.6 KB, 7 views)
File Type: jpg border13.jpg (29.0 KB, 6 views)
pride is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-30-2011, 05:41 AM   #6
medals73
Senior Member
 
medals73's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Earth, most of the time
Posts: 2,016
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

At the risk of slightly distorting this thread, there'd been a query about medals and badges to the ministry and to "security" services.

This may duplicate information elsewhere, but there is something to recommend a "thematic" approach?

First, the Distinción "Por el Servicio en el Ministerio del Interior" for 10, 15, and 20 years.

Distinction “For the Service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, awarded to members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs members, who, in their condition of military, by June 6 of each year, had served ten, fifteen, twenty or more years of active duty, according to the service calendar of the Ministry and had accomplished successfully the service duties given to them, with a positive qualification. The Distinction “For the Service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs” will be awarded by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

See also: http://soviet-awards.com/forum/sovie...-10-years.html
Attached Images
File Type: jpg CU-Int10.jpg (101.0 KB, 2 views)
File Type: jpg CU-Int15.jpg (100.5 KB, 1 views)
File Type: jpg CU-Int20.jpg (100.3 KB, 0 views)
medals73 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-30-2011, 05:43 AM   #7
medals73
Senior Member
 
medals73's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Earth, most of the time
Posts: 2,016
Re: Ministerio del Interior, MININT

Also:

-- DGS State Security Badge, 20 years, var. 1

-- DGS State Security Badge, 20 years, var. 2

-- Medalla Conmemorativa "30 Aniversario de DSE"
Attached Images
File Type: jpg CU-DGS1.jpg (92.2 KB, 8 views)
File Type: jpg CU-dgs2.jpg (99.5 KB, 7 views)
File Type: jpg CU-DSE30.jpg (102.2 KB, 5 views)

Last edited by medals73; 09-30-2011 at 05:49 AM.
medals73 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Medal For Loyal Service In The Armed Organs Of The Ministry Of Interior. roy DDR Medals 15 12-10-2013 08:25 AM
Merit Medal Of Organs Of The Ministry Of Interior. CtahhR DDR Medals 5 05-22-2013 04:56 PM
Medal For Outstanding Achievements In The Armed Organs Of The Ministry Of Interior. CtahhR DDR Medals 1 05-22-2013 02:35 PM
Jubilee Medal "20 Years Of The Organs Of The Ministry Of Interior". CtahhR Ministry Of Internal Affairs 0 03-01-2012 12:27 PM
Distinction "For Distinguished Service In The Ministry Of Interior". Taz Cuban Distinctions 0 07-29-2007 07:14 AM


3614 - American Legion Membership Medals 1943 Colorado Convention - H & She Pair picture

3614 - American Legion Membership Medals 1943 Colorado Convention - H & She Pair

$21.95



Original WWII Bronze Star Medal In Original 1944 Box picture

Original WWII Bronze Star Medal In Original 1944 Box

$24.99



Army Service Medal and Ribbon picture

Army Service Medal and Ribbon

$22.95



WWII Bronze Star Medal With Original Box VERY NICE CONDITION picture

WWII Bronze Star Medal With Original Box VERY NICE CONDITION

$19.99



Vintage 1991 Liberation of Kuwait Medal Iraq Gulf War Desert Storm Military Army picture

Vintage 1991 Liberation of Kuwait Medal Iraq Gulf War Desert Storm Military Army

$9.99



FULL SIZE Army Overseas Service Medal and Ribbon picture

FULL SIZE Army Overseas Service Medal and Ribbon

$22.95



Original Vietnam War GI Issue Service Medal Set  - Vintage Government Surplus picture

Original Vietnam War GI Issue Service Medal Set - Vintage Government Surplus

$12.95



GENUINE U.S. FULL SIZE MEDAL: NAVY GOOD CONDUCT picture

GENUINE U.S. FULL SIZE MEDAL: NAVY GOOD CONDUCT

$16.95



MINT U.S. Military National Defense Service Ribbon Medal & Bar Slide Pin LIGI picture

MINT U.S. Military National Defense Service Ribbon Medal & Bar Slide Pin LIGI

$8.99



PRISONER OF WAR, MEDAL & Ribbon Bar w/Original Box Military Issue 12/87 VTG MIL picture

PRISONER OF WAR, MEDAL & Ribbon Bar w/Original Box Military Issue 12/87 VTG MIL

$12.99




All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:06 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright ©2011 Arthur G. Bates III