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Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM - Latin American
College of Medicine) was created in the 1999 by President Fidel
Castro. The first class graduated in 2005. Each class has 1,500
students. ELAM is located in Santa Fé, north-east of La Havana,
on grounds formerly owned by the Naval Academy
"Granma". ELAM websit is at <www.elacm.sld.cu>.
The flag of ELAM is white
with an emblem made of two white hands outlined in green holding
the Earth, white outlined in red. Central and South America is
shown in plain red on the Earth, while Cuba is shown in plain
green. There is a Rod of Ascelpius emerging from Cuba, with the
staff red and the snake green. Below the emblem is written:
ESCUELA LATINOAMARICANA DE MEDICINA (in red) CUBA (in green).
Image at <www.elacm.sld.cu>.
The coat of
arms of ELAM has nearly nothing to do with the emblem shown
on the flag.
Ivan Sache, 7 February 2008
Cuban Naval Academy (1916-1959)
image by Miles Li, 10 February 2023
Granma Naval Academy (since 1959)
image by Miles Li, 10 February 2023
The Cuban Naval Academy was founded in 1916; it received the honorary title
"Granma" in 1959, after the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro and 81 other
expeditionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 during the Cuban Revolution.
Uniquely among organizational flags of the Cuban military, the flag of the
academy has the proportions of 1:2 and has no fringe, although until at least
1959 it had white-and-blue cord and tassels. However like all other parade flags
of the Cuban military, the flag of the academy is carried on a brown flagpole
with a brass spearhead finial.
Miles Li, 10 February 2023
Photo of flag in use:
https://www.radiorebelde.cu/envia-raul-felicitaciones-a-la-marina-de-guerra-revolucionaria-05092023/
Zoltan Horvath, 16 May 2024
