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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.
[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 the First Secretary of the Communist Party is the most powerful position in Cuba.
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a roundtable on Cuba last week at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Hialeah Gardens. Communist regime in Cuba is not ‘accidentally’ authoritarian; it is ...
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 ...
The U.S. embargo against Cuba is still in force as of 2025, although it underwent a partial loosening during the Obama administration, only to be strengthened in 2017 under Trump. [159] The U.S. began efforts to normalize relations with Cuba in the mid-2010s, [160] and formally reopened its embassy in Havana after over half a century in August ...
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 ...
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez [a] (Latin American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer.He has served as the 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2021 and as the 17th President of Cuba since 2019.