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Award Name (English/Spanish) Date of creation Award criteria Hero of the Republic of Cuba Héroe de la República de Cuba: 10 December 1979 "Awarded to members of the Armed Forces and to any Cuban citizen or from friendly countries, for extraordinary merits and feats carried out in the defense of the homeland and the conquests of the Revolution or for exceptional contributions to the cause of ...
Pages in category "Orders, decorations, and medals of Cuba" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Soviet Union: 9 May 1975 [20] Order of the October Revolution Soviet Union: 13 August 1976 [21] Commemorative Medal 20th Anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Cuba: 25 November 1976 First person awarded. [22] Order of Courage Libya: 10 March 1977
Medal Name Games Sport Event Gold: Ramón Fonst: 1900 Paris: Fencing: Men's épée Silver: Ramón Fonst: 1900 Paris: Fencing: Men's amateurs-masters épée
The honorary title Hero of the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Héroe de la República de Cuba) is the highest decoration awarded by the Republic of Cuba. It is equivalent to other hero titles common in the Socialist Bloc .
The Army of Cuban Occupation Medal was a military award created by the United States War Department in June 1915. The medal recognizes those service members who performed garrison occupation duty in the United States Protectorate over Cuba , following the close of the Spanish–American War .
The obverse of the medal depicts a soldier in fighting attitude, with one foot on the Cuban archipelago and the other on the North American mainland. [2] Earlier versions included the Cuban motto, "Patria o Muerte" (Homeland or Death), while later versions include the Cuban colours above, a wreath below, and the words "Orden Playa Girón ...
Cuba, which never hosted the Olympics, has won the fourth highest total number of medals (after Hungary, Romania, and Poland) among nations that have never hosted the Games. The National Olympic Committee for Cuba is the Cuban Olympic Committee ( Spanish : Comité Olímpico Cubano ), established in 1926 and recognized by the International ...