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Central America and the Caribbean > Cuba > Government

CUBAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Havana
Corruption 3.8 [60th of 160]
Judicial branch
People's Supreme Court or Tribunal Supremo Popular (president, vice president, and other judges are elected by the National Assembly)
Legal system
based on Spanish civil law and influenced by American legal concepts, with large elements of Communist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Legislative branch
unicameral National Assembly of People's Power or Asemblea Nacional del Poder Popular (609 seats; members elected directly from slates approved by special candidacy commissions to serve five-year terms)
Legislative branch > Election results
percent of vote - PCC 97.6%; seats - PCC 609
Legislative branch > Elections
last held 19 January 2003 (next to be held in 2008)
National holiday
Triumph of the Revolution, 1 January (1959)
Parliamentary seats > Female 28% [10th of 143]
Political parties and leaders
Cuban Communist Party or PCC [Fidel CASTRO Ruz, first secretary]
Prime minister Fidel Castro
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 36 % ... [9th of 174]
Status dictatorship
Suffrage
16 years of age; universal
Trademarks, nonresidents 1,937 ... [20th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 379 ... [43rd of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease
UN membership date 24 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/cuba
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
Columbia Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wikipedia: Prime minister ; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Cuba, Republic of Cuba, Republica de Cuba

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COMMENTARY     

Mark McKenna
27th November 2005
Cuba's status as having a 'social/political freedoms' rating of 0 seems vastly inappropriate; the UN has ruled consistently against flagging Cuba as a human rights violator; in light of this it seems highly unlikely that they deserve to be labelled as among the least free state.
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