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ABSTRACT

In January 1986, the first liver transplantation in Cuba was carried out at “Hermanos Ameijeiras” Hospital; this activity was extended in 1987 to the Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) and later to the “Vladimir Ilich Lenin” Hospital in Holguín. At the end of the 1980s, it stopped being carried out up to July 1999 when the activity in CIMEQ was restarted. This date marks a new milestone in cuban transplantology with the organization of a coordinating network responsible for the detection of potential organ donors, the training of specialized personnel and the acquisi-tion of new technologies, among other actions. In the article, the most important events occurring in the thirty years of the history of liver transplantation in Cuba are described in chronological order. Some of the organizational strategies are narrated to achieve the modest results which place Cuba in the sixth position in liver transplantation performed up to 2016, counted by the Latin American Transplant Registry of the Transplant Society of Latin America and the Caribbean.