Described constitutionally, far and wide, as a Marxist-Lennist socialist state, over a long period of political changes, growth and fluctuations, the Cuban political ideology has been influenced by the milestone philosophical-political ideas of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Surviving 50 plus years against US sanctioned penalties aiming to get rid of Fidel Castro, the veteran leader of Cuba’s Communist Government, Cuba outlasted its former supporter, The Soviet Union as a political state.
A totalitarian communist state with the political belief of “One state, One party”, Cuba is ruled by General Raul Castro and a squad of party devotees. Replacing his brother Fidel Castro as chief of state, president of Cuba, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces on February 24, 2008, Raul Castro began his rule over Cuba. Fidel Castro had served as President of the Council of Ministers and the Council of State while his brother Raul had served as the First Vice President of both bodies as well as Minister of …show more content…
Adopted by referendum on February 24, 1976, the current Cuban constitution says that, Cuba is an independent socialist republic under one single party’s rule: the Cuban Communist Party (PCC). The Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) is the only legal political party. Having been amended 3 times in 1978, 1992 and 2002, it establishes Cuba as an sovereign, independent and socialist State of workers, in the 1st article, whose governmental structures are the State Council and the Council of Ministers, the National Assembly of the Popular Power and the Supreme Popular Court along with the other Courts.
The Constitution provides for the promotion and protection of the cultural heritage and the artistic expressions while, with the amendments of 1992 and 2002 preserves the political status quo by declaring that the political structure, as it stood at that time, was unalterable and would no longer reflect the kinds of variations that frequently transpire in any