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[1] [2] [3] The present Constitution of Cuba, which was passed in a 2019 referendum, [4] [5] also describes the role of the Communist Party of Cuba to be the "leading force of society and of the state" and as having the capability of setting national policy, and First Secretary of the Communist Party is the most powerful position in Cuba.
The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba.It was founded on 3 October 1965 as the successor to the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which was in turn made up of the 26th of July Movement and Popular Socialist Party that seized power in Cuba after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Jose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of one of the largest banned anti-government groups in Cuba, was released two days after a surprise flurry of diplomatic activity involving the communist-run island ...
Nepal was previously ruled by the Nepal Communist Party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) between 1994 and 1998 and then again between 2008 and 2018 while states formerly ruled by one or more communist parties include San Marino (1945–1957 and 1978-1990), Moldova ...
Cuba remained an atheist state until 1992, when the government amended the constitution and it became secular. Pope John Paul II made history in 1998 as the first pope to ever visit the island.
GOP Senator Marco Rubio's comparison of Trump's hush money trial to a communist Cuba "show trial" that led to executions is being criticized as undermining the U.S. rule of law, which in itself ...
The government blames the U.S. embargo, which it refers to as a "blockade", imposed since the arrival of the Communist Party to power but intensified in 2021 with Cuba's addition to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Cuba accused the U.S. of stirring up unrest, an accusation the United States has denied. [6] [7]
It has been about eight years since Cuba began a series of economic reforms aimed at modernizing and jumpstarting the communist economy. The U.S. first placed an embargo on Cuba back in 1962 in an ...