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In the 2018 parliamentary elections, 80% of voters voted for the full list and only 20% selected individual candidates. [2]Miguel Díaz-Canel succeeded Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba on 19 April 2021, marking the end of the Castro era in Cuba.
Vikas Divyakirti was born on 26 December 1973 in Bhiwani, Haryana.He completed his early schooling in Hindi medium at Halwasia Vidhya Vihar. After completing his schooling, he studied at Zakir Husain Delhi College, pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce (honors) degree.
The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is to replace the current government with a liberal democracy. [1] According to Human Rights Watch, the Marxist-Leninist Cuban government represses nearly all forms of political dissent.
Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States.Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again ...
In all, Cuba continues to have formal relations with 160 nations, and provided civilian assistance workers – principally medical – in more than 20 nations. [44] More than two million exiles have escaped to foreign countries. [citation needed] Cuba's present Minister of Foreign Affairs is Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores), also known as MINREX, is the Cuban government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Cuba. [1] It was established on December 23, 1959, instead of the Ministry of State ( Ministerio de Estado ) to confront the hostile offensive of the United States .
Concerns have been expressed about the operation of due process.According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now "permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups ...
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...