National Assembly of the People’s Power

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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Next Bastion strategic exercises to be held in 2012

December 22, 2009

Army General Raúl Castro also announced in his speech before the National Assembly’s closing meeting on Sunday that the next Bastion Strategic Exercises will take place in mid-November 2012, continuing its four-year cycle.

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