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
- APRIL 5, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuban President Fidel Castro lambasted the USA in an...
Cuban President Fidel Castro lambasted the USA in an address at the 105th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Havana
- MARCH 15, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed its concern...
Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed its concern over Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso's indication that her country might not extradite four suspected assassins of Cuban leader Fidel Castro on the grounds that Cuba has the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2001CubaDEATH 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
- DECEMBER 3, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba's President Fidel Castro said the four Cuban exiles...
Cuba's President Fidel Castro said the four Cuban exiles accused in Panama of plotting to assassinate him would not be executed if they were extradited back to the communist-ruled island for trial
- NOVEMBER 29, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Luis Posada Carriles, 72, was arrested on November...
Luis Posada Carriles, 72, was arrested on November 17 at a Panama hotel after Fidel Castro accused him and three others of planning to assassinate him arrived for the 10th Ibero-American summit
- NOVEMBER 25, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba is willing to abolish the death penalty, the Cuban...
Cuba is willing to abolish the death penalty, the Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega said
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has...
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has said the ministry was studying the court records on Posada Carriles to determine whether there were judicial grounds to request his extradition
- AUGUST 9, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Elizardo Sanchez, President of the Cuban Commission...
Elizardo Sanchez, President of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) sent a report on the death penalty to foreign media in Havana
- JULY 2, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Cuban government described condemned or recently...
The Cuban government described condemned or recently executed African Americans as revolutionary martyrs
- JUNE 24, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban...
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban condemned Gary Graham's execution in Texas as a racist "crime" and cited the execution as an example of why Elian Gonzalez (a Cuban boat boy who had been retained in the United States by his relatives
- JUNE 20, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito...
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito Cartaya, Alberto Diaz Perez, Julio Alberto Morales Montero, Morlaix Nodal Pozo, Reidel Rodriguez Reyes and Hector Santana Vega, were sentenced to death for killing five guards during a bloody jailbrea
- APRIL 26, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no