The magazine was founded with the aim of showing Cuba from its diversity, understanding that respect for diversity of thought is at the heart of thinking and acting as journalists. The goal is to provide uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate, to help readers understand the Cuban reality and build their own judgment.

The organization sends to human rights groups in Cuba Tools for Democracy such as fax
machines, computers, audio and video equipment, paper and pens. They also send humanitarian
aid to the families of political prisoners and human rights activists who suffer reprisals for
political positions.

The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. The
museum was made possible by the 2004 Building Better Communities bond program, enacted by
the citizens of Miami-Dade County, and the generous support of the Miami-Dade County
Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor
and Board of County Commissioners.

During its first nineteen years of existence, the Association’s principal activity has been its Annual Meeting, held in Miami, Florida, in late July or early August. During a three-day period, scholars, professionals and private entrepreneurs from Cuba present papers and participate in roundtable discussions. Papers, presentations and discussions, as well as roundtable summaries, are included in a volume of papers and proceedings entitled “Cuba in Transition.” ASCE seeks to broaden its contacts with economic associations outside the United States and to encourage economists and other social scientists from outside the United States to participate in its annual meetings.

ASCE also sponsors sessions on Cuba at the annual meetings of the American Economic
Association.

As the needs of the community and profession changed, so did the mission of the ACAE.  Recognizing the fact that many engineers continue to emigrate from Spanish-speaking countries, the ACAE Engineers lobbied the Florida Board of Professional Regulation to allow examinations in Spanish.  Exams in Spanish became a reality in 1980 and continue to be offered through the Florida Board, facilitating the licensure process for many Spanish-speaking engineers as they enter the U.S., giving them the opportunity to integrate into the engineering community in the U.S. as they learn English.

Currently the ACAE fulfills its mission to help those in their profession by promoting engineering education, providing networking opportunities, and most recently addressing engineering-related issues in Cuba’s future, specifically with respect to the physical infrastructure.  The ACAE promotes engineering education by encouraging student chapters of ACAE at U.S. Universities, and by promoting scholarship programs that award thousands of dollars in scholarships yearly to students of Hispanic and/or Cuban heritage.  Networking opportunities are facilitated by the organization through the yearly Gala which brings together over 300 engineering professionals yearly to its annual awards ceremony, celebrating achievements of local engineering professionals.  Moreover, the ACAE hosts a series of regular breakfast seminars which focus on South Florida’s and Cuba’s engineering infrastructure issues and has developed and promoted additional ceremonies to honor those in the local community who have made significant contributions to engineering practice and engineering education.

Starting in 2006, the ACAE in collaboration with C-AACE (Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers) initiated a series of workshops focusing on educating the local community of Cuba’s current infrastructure needs, and these workshops have since expanded to include participation in engineering-focused presentations at the yearly meetings of the ASCE (Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy).  This work focusing on Cuba’s infrastructure has been facilitated through a set of four study committees focusing on Cuba’s:  Transportation; Water/Wastewater; Energy/Telecommunications; Healthcare Infrastructures.

The goal of these committees is to compile and document readily available information and to serve in an advisory role to those who are interested in learning more about Cuba’s infrastructure needs.  Local engineering professionals and college students have synergistically participated together in committee work providing mentored engineering analysis and design experiences within a topic that is of interest to all of those involved.  Both professional engineers and students have presented the results of their efforts at local conferences, and students have also utilized this work to participate in student engineering competitions.

Every year, for the past twenty-two years, they joined together to raise the Cuban flag on “El Grito de Yara”, the day Cuban Patriots called for Independence from Spain. The Flag Raising Ceremony is held in City Hall Plaza of Boston, Massachusetts.  Dedicated to promoting human rights and freedom to the people of Cuba.

Director: Regla Gonzalez

BANDERA CUBANA
617-327-6760
email: reglag@aol.com
FB: Bandera Cubana

As one of South Florida’s most recognized and prestigious social clubs, the Big Five Club seeks to preserve the original nature of Havana’s social clubs by offering an elegant and relaxed way for community members to enjoy time and engage with fellow locals. Approaching its fiftieth year of operation, the Big Five Club has over 750 member families who enjoy the club’s various amenities, such as its gym, pool, playgrounds, and courts, year-round.

The Big Five Club hosts many events and services-year-round, and its facilities are available to be rented out for weddings, banquets, and all other party and meeting events.

Brothers to the Rescue was founded in May 1991 after several pilots were touched by the death of a fifteen-year-old adolescent named Gregorio Pérez Ricardo, who fleeing Castro’s Cuba on a raft, perished of severe dehydration.  The organization, a small, non-profit corporation, conducts its humanitarian missions searching for rafters in the Florida Straits, through the efforts of a group of pilots, observers and volunteers from numerous countries, including Argentina, Cuba, Perú, France, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, the United States, Venezuela and former Cuban rafters.

Brothers to the Rescue has conducted over 2,400 aerial search missions.  These operations have resulted in the rescue of more than 4,200 men, women and children ranging from a five-day old infant to a man 79 years of age, and the rescue of thousands of others during the refugee crisis of 1994.

On February 24th 1996, Armando Alejandre Jr, Carlos Costa and Mario de la Pena – all American citizens – and Pablo Morales, a Cuban-born American resident, carried out a mission over international waters near Havana when their planes were shot down by a Cuban MiG-29 upon orders from the Cuban government.  All four pilots died on the spot.

It has been estimated that Brothers to the Rescue pilots have saved one life for every two hours of flight time.  This is considered a record rate among professional search and rescue organizations such as the Civil Air Patrol and the United States Air Force.  Additionally, there have been flights to drop food and water supplies to stranded rafters in deserted Bahamian Islands, as well as weekly deliveries of emergency food, medicine and clothing to a Cuban refugee detention camp in Nassau, Bahamas.  The organization has also conducted search missions for survivors of shipwrecks of U.S. citizens, Bahamians, Haitians and missing divers.

Brothers to the Rescue plans to maintain an active program that addresses the most basic human needs of those struggling for freedom.