On June 6, 1961, the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) was created, whose mission would be to defend the security and internal order of the young Revolution and which would be headed by Commander Ramiro Valdés Menéndez. Its creation marked the culmination of a period of improvement and unification of various bodies initiated with the founding of the National Revolutionary Police and the creation of the State Security Bodies.
The creation of the Minint was an early response of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution, triumphant on January 1, 1959, to the growing aggressiveness of the United States government, which hatched dozens of plans to overthrow it.
From then on, the Minint continued to strengthen its chain of command and other agencies were subordinated to it, such as the Fire Brigade, the Forest Rangers, the Canine Technique, the Border Guard Troops and the National Special Brigade.
The new generations of combatants of the Ministry of the Interior are immersed in a tough battle against the old policy applied against Cuba since 1959 itself, today masked under new names that also promote cyberspace mercenaries committed like their failed predecessors to those old and well-known objectives of capitalist restoration.
The courageous, disciplined and equanimous attitude of the forces of the Ministry of the Interior together with the people will defeat those ruses that seek to establish a climate of violence in the country that will serve as a pretext for an armed intervention.
The forces of the Ministry of the Interior act in coordination with the citizenry to confront internal criminal activities and those coming from abroad with the support of successive U.S. administrations.
Its troops participate in missions called by the country’s leadership to preserve human life and the nation’s economic interests in the face of disasters caused by natural events and pandemics.
