HAVANA – The Cuban government announced Monday that its military exercise Bastion, which it organizes annually to prepare the country for a possible invasion, will take place next week.

The exercise “has as its objective the training of individual leaders and chiefs and the leadership and command structure” in order to “raise the nation’s preparedness for defense and to get troops ready to meet different kinds of enemy action,” the bulletin released in the official media said.

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