Máximo Gómez Command Academy is a military institution of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
The academy, which is located to the east of Havana, is the principal senior service school for the training of soldiers in the FAR.
[1] It was founded in 1963 and is under the orbit of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR), whose employees are trained by the school.
In the 1990s, a period when the FAR increased its influence in the management of Cuba's economy, the academy introduced civilian economists who were hired by the MINFAR to spread and teach the economic reforms that they favored.
Although organized for senior MINFAR officials, civilians who work for the government and/or the Communist Party of Cuba also are invited to attend the courses.