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Nova is a Linux distribution being developed by students and professors at the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, with the participation of members of other institutions, to support the ongoing migration to Free Software in Cuba as part of the computerization of the Cuban society.
Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. [2] [3] It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide free and open-source software (FOSS) to inexperienced users and Cuban institutions.
The internet in Cuba covers telecommunications in Cuba including the Cuban grassroots wireless community network and Internet censorship in Cuba. Since its introduction in the late 1990s, Cuban Internet has stalled because of lack of funding, [ 1 ] tight government restrictions, [ 2 ] and the U.S. embargo , especially the Torricelli Act .
In August 2023, Logan M. Williams, a student at the University of Connecticut and researcher at the Center for a Free Cuba, wrote that China was about to start construction of a military base on Cuba. [4] The center also alleges that Hezbollah has a training center in Cuba citing a 2016 leaked email from Hillary Clinton. [9]
They provide pre-military training to students aged 11 to 17. [1] They forge of more than 70% of officers and 50% of the generals and colonels in the FAR. [ 2 ] It is named after Camilo Cienfuegos , a Cuban revolutionary who, along with Fidel Castro , Che Guevara , Juan Almeida Bosque , and Raúl Castro , took part in the 1956 Granma expedition .
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...
Main building of the Casa de las Américas in Vedado/Havana. Casa de las Américas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world.
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