Modification of the Cuban Constitution

The institutions of the Cuban regime

Can the 1940 Constitution outlaw the Communist Party?

Morón, after the burning of the PCC headquarters, should have restored the Constitution of 1940 and sought international assistance, according to an expert

Expert Eduardo Garaicoa explains why Cuba needs to return to the 1940 Constitution

Saladrigas: "The Constitution of 1940 is no longer relevant for Cuba."

The unfounded fear of the day after the dictatorship: There are well-reasoned proposals, explains Cuban researcher

The Cuban regime invokes the 1940 Constitution, which it dismantled, to legitimize expropriations

Díaz-Canel does not accept the resignation of Homero Acosta: Signs of fracture or moral crisis in Cuban power?

Officials justify the constitutional reform without a public consultation: "We have the authority."

The Transition Council proposes a Citizen Constituent Assembly to defend human rights in Cuba

Cuba hints that the new Family Code will regulate LGTBI unions as de facto couples

Karla Pérez: The latest affront of the "revolution" to the people of Cuba

A Congressman asserts on Cuban TV that the new Constitution "sinned by being too inclusive."

The Cuban government will approve an animal welfare policy in November

Raúl Castro assures that Cuba is not reverting to the Special Period

Cuba will proclaim its new Constitution on April 10th

An audit is being conducted on the documents of the Cuban constitutional referendum

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expresses "concern" over the new Constitution of Cuba

The Washington Post believes that Cubans are losing "patience and fear."

Cuban diplomat responds to criticisms of the referendum: "Yes, because we felt like it."

They published the act of repudiation against Yoani Sánchez at the polling station where she was acting as an observer

The testimony of the secretary of a polling station during the Constitutional referendum in Cuba

Díaz-Canel says that the U.S. has no "prestige or moral authority" to criticize the validity of the referendum

After the Yes, what next?

Cuba Constitution (2019) in PDF

Voter participation is on the decline and unstoppable in Cuba

The U.S. speaks out on the constitutional referendum in Cuba: "No one should be fooled by that exercise."

Nearly 2.5 million Cubans turned their backs on the Constitution, according to government data

Why is Cuba taking so long to announce the final results of the referendum?

A Cuban sends a message to those who ask for top-ups for friends abroad and vote yes: "They deserve to eat grass."

Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, witness to changes in the electoral registry during the referendum

Rosa María Payá: "As if by magic, the electoral roll in Cuba grew from 8.6 million to 9.2 million."

Cuba chooses continuity by ratifying its Constitution

Díaz-Canel feels "immense pride" because the Yes won: "A people like this always deserves victory."

The "Yes" vote for the new Constitution of Cuba wins with 86% of the votes, according to government data

Luis Almagro: "In a dictatorship, a referendum is synonymous with fraud."

Josefina Vidal responds to Marco Rubio after he called Cuba's constitutional referendum a "fraud."

Secretary of State for Latin America: "The Communist Party renewed the legal pretext to deny the people the change they desire."

Yes wins over No in the constitutional referendum in Cuba, according to exit poll estimates

Damas de Blanco members arrested while protesting against the constitutional referendum in Cuba

This was the constitutional referendum in Cuba: propaganda in schools, voting with a pencil, and harassment

"I see nothing in the new Constitution but well-being, rights, and duties," affirms Elián González

Silvio Rodríguez on the new Constitution: "No other process will be as committed to the fate of the people as this one."

Electoral fraud: Cuban marks "Yes" on 30 ballots and deposits them in a ballot box

7.5 million Cubans voted in the Constitutional referendum, according to the government's latest report

Cubans are filling social media with photos of the "No" marked on their ballots

Cuba concludes the Constitutional referendum voting and begins ballot counting

A Cuban recounts how they tried to violate his uncle's right to secret voting in Havana

The Government of Cuba assures that by 2:00 p.m., 6.7 million Cubans would have voted

This Cuban says she will vote yes for the Constitution "for Martí, for Hugo Chávez, and for Bolívar."

"I vote NO because I do not want continuity."

The Cuban government says that by 11:00 a.m., 5.1 million Cubans would have already voted

Cubans in favor of and against the Communist Party Constitution

They denounce the illegality of the pro-Yes propaganda in polling stations in Cuba

Cubans express their views on the referendum: “It is a tool of democracy that has not been fulfilled in this case.”

Cuba will vote this Sunday on the controversial constitutional reform

Almost half of Cubans will not support the Constitution, according to a survey by OCDH

Daniel Llorente arrested for promoting the NO vote on the constitutional referendum in Cuba

Cuban electoral observation platforms denounce the repression their members are being subjected to

Citizens can be present during the counting of votes for the constitutional referendum in Cuba