Last Updated: Friday, 25 May 2012, 13:06 GMT

Title	Cuba: Information on the Chief of Staff of the Cuban Navy, Captain Rene González Machado, including what his duties are and whether he has been involved in any reported human rights abuses since 1983
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Cuba
Publication Date	1 February 1998
Citation / Document Symbol	CUB28730.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Cuba: Information on the Chief of Staff of the Cuban Navy, Captain Rene González Machado, including what his duties are and whether he has been involved in any reported human rights abuses since 1983, 1 February 1998, CUB28730.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ac9b5c.html [accessed 27 May 2012]
Disclaimer	This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.

Cuba: Information on the Chief of Staff of the Cuban Navy, Captain Rene González Machado, including what his duties are and whether he has been involved in any reported human rights abuses since 1983

The only reference to a Captain Rene González among the sources consulted was in a 21 October 1986 Reuters article which reported that Captain González had received a small Soviet naval fleet during "an official and friendly visit." No information on a Captain González as Chief of Staff of the Navy could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

Cuba: A Country Study states that in 1985 the commander of the Revolutionary Navy was Rear Admiral José Cuza Téllez-Girón (1987). General background information on the Cuban Navy can be found in this publication, available at headquarters' Resource Centre, on pages 259-260.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

References

Cuba: A Country Study. 1987. Edited by James D. Rudolph. Washington: Library of Congress.

Reuters. 21 October 1986. "Soviet Naval Flottilla Pays Visit to Cuba." (NEXIS)

Additional Sources Consulted

Amnesty International Report. 1990-1997.

Amnesty International. August 1997. Cuba: Renewed Crackdown on Peaceful Government Critics.

_____. July 1997. Cuba: The Sinking of the '13 de Marzo' Tugboat on 13 July 1994.

_____. July 1996. Dissidents Imprisoned or Forced Into Exile.

_____. April 1996. Government Crackdown on Dissident.

_____. October 1994. United States/Cuba: Cuban 'Rafters' Pawns of Two Governments.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. 1990-1997.

Human Rights Watch World Report. 1990-1997.

Human Rights Watch (HRW). October 1995. Improvements Without Reform.

INS Resource Center. June 1995. Cuba: Human Rights in Cuba.

The International Who's Who. 1996-1998.

Latin American Regional Reports: Caribbean & Central America Report [London]. 1990-1997.

Two sources consulted could not provide information on the above-mentioned subject.

Electronic sources: IRB Databases, Global News Bank, LEXIS/NEXIS, Internet, REFWORLD (UNHCR database), World News Connection (WNC).

Topics: Human rights,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

Regions

Countries

Countries