Cuba to enact new constitution launching modest state revamp
In a February referendum, Cubans overwhelmingly ratified the new blueprint
Havana — Cuba’s national assembly is set to enact the new constitution on Wednesday, allowing the government to launch a modest update of its centrally planned single party system with dozens of laws expected on everything from the economy to political structures. In a February referendum, Cubans overwhelmingly ratified the new constitution after a year of debate, updating its 1976, Soviet-era Magna Carta. While it retains socialism as “irrevocable”, it codifies changes in Cuban society since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, such as the opening of the economy to free enterprise, and includes a political restructuring among other changes. The document specifies some of the new laws to be elaborated within the next two years, while more broadly stipulating the national assembly must establish a timeline for about 50 laws needed to bring governing practice in step with the constitution. Analysts say that while the constitution establishes the broad framework of this intense leg...
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