Cuba
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- February 24, 1976; amended in 1992 and 2002
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Spanish and American law with many points from communist theory
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly of the People's Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of the People (Tribunal Supremo Popular), president, vice president, and other judges are elected by the National Assembly
RELIGIONS
Catholic majority
From the country
- MARCH 15, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana sentenced...
On March 15, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana sentenced Vladimiro Roca to 5 years imprisonment; René Gomez Manzano and Felix Bonne to 4 years; Marta Beatriz Roque to 3½ years
- MARCH 13, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 13, the Provincial Tribunal of Granma gave...
On March 13, the Provincial Tribunal of Granma gave out the news that José Luis Osorio Zamora, sentenced to death for murdering his 5-year-old son in Campechuela, had been executed
- MARCH 6, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 6, the Provincial Tribunal of Granma announced...
On March 6, the Provincial Tribunal of Granma announced that Francisco Javier Chavez Palacios, a 25-year-old musician, had been executed for having murdered Pedro Fonseca, a Communist Party official, in Bayamo on April 4, 1997
- MARCH 5, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 5, two Cuban citizens were executed, an official...
On March 5, two Cuban citizens were executed, an official organ of the Communist Party in Las Tuna reported on March 12
- MARCH 3, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 3, Cuban television reported that the Provincial...
On March 3, Cuban television reported that the Provincial Tribunal of Santiago had sentenced to death Francisco Portuondo Medina, aged 40, for murdering police Lieut
- MARCH 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
In March, a Cuban whose name was not revealed, resident...
In March, a Cuban whose name was not revealed, resident in the Oriental province of Holguin, was condemned to death by the Provincial Tribunal
- MARCH 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 1, the trial of Vladimiro Roca, son of one...
On March 1, the trial of Vladimiro Roca, son of one of the founders of the Communist Party, economist Marta Beatriz Roque, attorney René Gomez Manzano and former teacher Felix Bonne, held in prison for 17 months on charges of "sedition and acts against St
- FEBRUARY 15, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On February 15, President Fidel Castro said broader...
On February 15, President Fidel Castro said broader use of the death penalty was needed to save the island's socialist revolution
- FEBRUARY 12, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On February 12, an official organ of the Communist...
On February 12, an official organ of the Communist Party in Las Tunas announced that two death sentences had been ratified by the Tribunal Supremo Popular
- JANUARY 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the...
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offenses, 33 of which are common crimes
- JANUARY 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been used in Cuba since the 1959...
The death penalty has been used in Cuba since the 1959 revolution, after which Castro's triumphant revolutionary forces tried and executed scores of supporters of former dictator Fulgencio Batista