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Cuba and the Rule of Law

268 pgs.

Publisher:

   International Commission of Jurists

Place of Publication:

  Geneva  

Publication Year:

  1962

Subjects:

Rule Of Law--Cuba

	CONTENTS
	INTRODUCTION by the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists	VII
	NOTE ON SOURCES	XIII
	Part One
	I. Chronology of the Most Important Events in the History of Cuba	1
	II. The Land
	A. Geography	9
	B. Characteristics of the Land	10
	C. Adjacent Islands	10
	III. The Economy
	A. Agriculture	11
	B. Mineral Resources	17
C.	Industry	17
D.	Transport	19
	E. Comunications	20
	F. Foreign Trade	20
	G. Finance	21
	IV. The People
	A. General Features	22
	B. Institutions	26
1.	Political Parties	26
	(a) Parties under the democratic régime	27
	(b) Political life under Batista	36
2.	Trade Unions	43
3.	The Army	47
4.	The Catholic Church	49
5.	Economic groups and business interests	51
6.	University graduates, professional workers and intellectual groups	52
7.	Foreign business firms	53
	V. The History of the Cuban Revolution Between Two Speeches
	A. "History Will Absolve Me"	55
	B. Stages of the Cuban Revolution	60
C.	The Judiciary and the Bar Under the Castro Regime	63
D.	Castro's Speech of December 1, 1961	69
	E. Conclusions	72
	Appendices 73
	Part Two
I.	Introduction	78
II.	The 1940 Constitution	78
	A. Dogmatic Part of the Constitution	79
	B. Organic Part of the Constitution	81
	III. Changes in the Constitutional Order 82
	A. The Constitutional Act of 1952	83
	B. The Short-Lived Restoration of the 1940 Constitution	84
	IV. Constitutional Variations Under the Castro Regime
	A. Amendments to the 1940 Constitution	85
	B. The Fundamental Law of the Republic of Cuba of February 7, 1959	91
	V. Amendments to the Fundamental Law 98
	VI. Conclusions 112
	Part Three
I.	Substantive Criminal Legislation	114
	A. Regulation No. 1 and Act No. 33	116
	B. Criminal Law of 1896	117
	C. Act No. 425	119
	D. Act No. 664	123
	E. Act No. 719	125
	F. Act No. 732	126
	G. Act No. 858	127
	H. Act No. 923	127
	I. Act No. 988	128
	J. Act No. 1018	130
	Conclusions	130
	II. Legislation on Criminal Procedure	131
	A. Regulation No. 1 and Act No. 33	131
	B. Criminal Procedure Act of 1882 and Procedural Law of 1896	133
C.	Act No. 425	136
D.	Act No. 634	139
	E. Act No. 925	141
	Conclusions	141
	Part Four
I.	Introduction	142
II.	The Position of the Judiciary	142
III.	The Revolutionary Courts in Action	152
IV.	The Case of the Airmen	181
	V. Violations of Personal Freedom 191
	A. Mass Arrests	191
	B. Individual Arrests	195
VI.	Conditions in Cuban Prisons	204
VII.	Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment	219
VIII.	Religious Persecution	225
IX.	Infringements of Labour Rights	230
	X. Offences against Property 241
XI.	Infringements of the Freedom of the Press	245
XII.	Violations of the Freedom of Education	248
XIII.	The Right of Asylum in Cuba	252
XIV.	On Leaving Cuba	256
XV.	Conclusions	259
	CONCLUSION	264

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