The Cuban Ministry of the Interior (Minint) commemorates today 62 years of its creation with the mission of tirelessly watching over national security and citizen tranquility.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and with the growing aggressiveness of the United States Government, on June 6, 1961, the portfolio was institutionalized with the aim of concentrating efforts, experiences, human and material resources from different organizations scattered until then.
The departments of the Ministry of the Interior and those of the Cabinet of Justice related to the preservation of internal order and security of the country, from the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the National Revolutionary Police and the Investigations Department of the Rebel Army, joined the nascent institution. .
In later years, it continued to strengthen its organic structure through the creation or integration of other specialties such as the Firefighters and Forest Rangers, the Canine Technique, the Border Guard Troops, and the National Special Brigade.
The fundamental mission of the Minint lies in the preservation of State security and the internal order of the country, which harmoniously links the confrontation with criminal and counterrevolutionary activities with the prevention of these phenomena.
