The first troops of Boy Scouts in Cuba met under the sponsorship of the American Legion, the Mother's Club del Vedado and the electric generating plant of the Compañía Cubana de Electricidad.

of Matanzas was among the first in the Americas to receive Wood Badge training, at Gilwell Park, England.

At the beginning of the 1960s Fernandez Beltrán was appointed to the office of Deputy Secretary of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1956, under the leadership of Serafín García Menocal, President of the Consejo Nacional Scouts de Cuba (National Council), the Scouts of Cuba bought the national training grounds Campo Escuela Nacional Mayabeque at Mayabeque, along the river of the same name, near Catalina de Güines in Havana Province within 50 km of the capital.

Cuban Scouts rendered service during those times, directing traffic, collecting rations, helping in hospitals and establishing first aid stations.

In 1961, the World Scout Conference terminated the WOSM membership claiming that the ASC had ceased to exist.

The Lincoln-Marti Camporee began in 1970 with troops largely from south Florida's Cuban-American community.

[4] Recent developments have seen one new Scout group, in a Catholic church in Santiago de Cuba since early 2012.