Programs

In 1990, Cuba could have been said to possess Latin America's best equipped, if not most technologically up-to-date, armed forces. However, the quality of the country's inventory has since eroded drastically due to the subsequent collapse of the Soviet-led strategic bloc and subsequent emergence of perpetual maintenance shortfalls.  Cuba has been unable to pay market prices for spare parts after growing accustomed to the previous "friendship" prices offered by the Soviet...