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Introduction - Cuba: | Location - Cuba: | People - Cuba: | Government - Cuba: | Economy - Cuba: | Communications - Cuba: | Transportation - Cuba: | Military - Cuba: | Military branches | Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR): Revolutionary Army (ER), Revolutionary Navy (Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria, MGR), Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force (DAAFAR), Youth Labor Army (EJT) (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 17-28 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year service obligation; both sexes subject to military service (2006) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 17-49: 2,967,865
females age 17-49: 2,913,559 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 17-49: 2,441,927
females age 17-49: 2,396,741 (2005 est.) | | Military note | Moscow, for decades the key military supporter and supplier of Cuba, cut off almost all military aid by 1993 | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 91,901
females age 18-49: 87,500 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 3.8% (2006 est.) | | Trafficking in persons | current situation: Cuba is a source country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced child labor; Cuba is a major destination for sex tourism, which largely caters to European, Canadian, and Latin American tourists and involves large numbers of minors; there are reports that Cuban women have been trafficked to Mexico for sexual exploitation; forced labor victims also include children coerced into working in commercial agriculture
tier rating: Tier 3 - Cuba does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so | | Disputes international | US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |