National Assembly

Nomenklatura remains entrenched (Updated)

April 19, 2011

2009 hrs Secretariat — Cuban Communist Party Encabezado por José Ramón Machado Ventura Esteban Lazo Hernández Abelardo Álvarez Gil Víctor Gaute López Olga Lidia Tapia Iglesias José Ramón Balaguer Misael Enamorado Dager Central Committee — Cuban Communist Party (There are 20 generals in the CC.) Misleydy Abad Modey Gral de Div. Onelio Aguilera Bermúdez Liudmila Álamo Dueñas Ricardo [...]

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Rubber stamp legislature meets next month

November 21, 2010

The Cuban National Assembly of the People’s Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) will meet December 15 amidst ”economic reforms” pushed by Raul Castro’s government while the Assembly’s president Ricardo Alarcón is in China meeting with authorities from the central government, Chinese Communist Party and his Chinese counterpart.

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Change in political-administrative division

September 17, 2010

Cuba will be divided into 15 provinces and 168 municipalities instead of the existing 14 and 169, according to the Political-Adminstrative Division Modification Law (pdf) published in the Gaceta Oficial on September 2nd. The legislation was approved August 1st by the National Assembly of the People’s Power in its first 2010 ordinary session. Cuba’s population is [...]

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No mention of reforms

August 7, 2010

El País gives an overview of Fidel Castro’s speech before the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power. Not one word was uttered about the internal situation on the island nor the “reforms” announced on August 1st by Army General Raúl Castro. Fidel’s speech concentrated more on the prognostication that the world is on the verge [...]

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Video of the Day

August 7, 2010
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Rare address to parliament

August 7, 2010

The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, is to make his first speech to the national assembly since he stepped down due to ill health four years ago. If, as expected, his brother Raul attends, it will be their first public appearance together since he became leader of the communist state. [BBC]

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