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
- 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 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