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 21, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuban television broadcast a programme in which government...
Cuban television broadcast a programme in which government journalists and commentators rolled out a litany of accusations against European Union states, Canada and other nations that voted with the United States to censure Cuba at the United Nation's Hum
- MARCH 30, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Perez Roque said it remained to be seen whether the Commission would ever muster the courage to condemn the United States for its unfair and arbitrary application of the d
- FEBRUARY 16, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
In a briefing to Members of the European Parliament,...
In a briefing to Members of the European Parliament, Commissioner Chris Patten acknowledged that much remained to be done in the human rights field, especially in what he felt were the problem areas of the death penalty, Cuba and China
- JANUARY 1, 2000CubaDEATH 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
- NOVEMBER 11, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On November 11, Cuban representative Bruno Rodriguez...
On November 11, Cuban representative Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, speaking at the Third Committee of the General Assembly (human rights) under item 116a (death penalty), said that the debate was essentially on the principles of the Charter and on their inter
- JUNE 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
In June, the European Union, alarmed by the growing...
In June, the European Union, alarmed by the growing number of executions in the country, called on the Cuban authorities to limit their use of the death penalty and also the number of death-qualifiable offenses, and to adopt a moratorium on executions, in
- MAY 29, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 29, Sergio A
On May 29, Sergio A
- MAY 7, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission...
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation" in Havana disclosed that the Cuban Government had executed 10 criminals by firing squad in the previous 3 months and has sentenced 5 more to death
- APRIL 28, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained on the resolution on the death penalty...
Cuba abstained on the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (1999/61)
- APRIL 17, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On April 17, Fidel Castro promised to consider sparing...
On April 17, Fidel Castro promised to consider sparing the lives of the two Salvadorans sentenced to death for terrorism
- APRIL 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez...
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, was sentenced to death for a series of bombings and bombing attempts in Cuba
- MARCH 23, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon,...
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian tour