Guantanamo.-With the Provincial, Municipal, and Zone Defense Councils, as well as entities and organizations, the territorial defense exercise of Defense Zones is carried out in Cuba, as part of the objective to strengthen their preparedness and cohesion.
During the exercise, the National Defense Council, emphasized the need for maximum organization of each planned task to achieve the best possible preparation of the Production and Defense Brigades (BPD), in order to have a well-trained population capable of halting and defeating any attempt by the enemy to seize control of Cuba.
In all the provinces the exercise conductes an evacuation following drill air raid siren, in which participant had left the classrooms and other school buildings and taken up positions in the shelters.
In other locations, members of the Provincial Defense Forces (BPD) trained in assembling and disassembling rifles, throwing grenades, and conducting marksmanship exercises.
Likewise, the members of the BPD, in conjunction with students from schools practiced protecting the provincial government headquarters in the event of an enemy attempt to seize the building.
All of these actions are part of a nationwide strategy to prepare the population for territorial defense, and these drills will be systematically repeated at various locations throughout the country.
