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 11, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla...
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla GarcIa and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac, three men convicted of terrorism for hijacking of a passenger ferry in Cuba were executed
- APRIL 10, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended
- DECEMBER 2, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued...
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued use of the death penalty as a deterrent to atrocious common crimes, but noted that the measure is used selectively
- OCTOBER 18, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Cuban Attorney General's Office sought the death...
The Cuban Attorney General's Office sought the death penalty for a man charged with the murders of six people
- JULY 4, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
The number of political prisoners in Cuba has increased...
The number of political prisoners in Cuba has increased up to 230 in the first half of 2002, reported leader of the illegal Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz
- APRIL 25, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution 2002/77 on the death...
Cuba abstained from the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- FEBRUARY 4, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban...
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban President Fidel Castro to abolish the death penalty in Cuba
- JANUARY 9, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Some 50 prisoners await execution in Cuba, though no...
Some 50 prisoners await execution in Cuba, though no death sentences have been carried out there since 2000, an independent human rights organization on the island said, adding that most of those convicts live under "subhuman conditions
- DECEMBER 25, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Venezuelan government formally requested that Panama...
The Venezuelan government formally requested that Panama extradite a Cuban man, Luis Posada Carriles, accused of blowing up a Cubana Aviacion airliner in 1976 shortly after take-off from Barbados
- DECEMBER 20, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
With President Fidel Castro presiding, Cuban lawmakers...
With President Fidel Castro presiding, Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved an expanded antiterrorism law that reaffirmed the use of the death penalty for the most extreme acts of terror
- DECEMBER 20, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) approved a request...
The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) approved a request for the extradition of alleged anti-Castro terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is jailed in Panama on charges of conspiring to kill the Cuban leader
- DECEMBER 10, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union foreign ministers decided to maintain...
The European Union foreign ministers decided to maintain their "common position" on Cuba which conditions cooperation with Havana on the Castro government applying reforms on human rights and moving towards political pluralism