{"id":397592,"date":"2019-02-28T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cuba-adopts-a-new-socialist-constitution\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T15:42:14","slug":"cuba-adopts-a-new-socialist-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cuba-adopts-a-new-socialist-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Adopts a New Socialist Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101553\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101553\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/1826x2436.jpeg.9a91075be3124eb2bb36e7e7dc29843c.large_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/1826x2436.jpeg.9a91075be3124eb2bb36e7e7dc29843c.large_.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/1826x2436.jpeg.9a91075be3124eb2bb36e7e7dc29843c.large_-300x195.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On February 24, 2019, the Cuban people overwhelmingly adopted a new constitution, as 84.4% of resident citizens voted in the constitutional referendum, with 86.8 % voting \u201cYes,\u201d 9% \u201cNo,\u201d 2.5% blank ballots, and 1.6% annulled.<\/p>\n<p>Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba has been striving to develop a socialist constitutional foundation.\u00a0 The evolving Cuban constitutionality includes: reformulations of liberal bourgeois concepts of political and civil rights, including the development of popular democracy; universal protection of social and economic rights; proclamation of the rights of nations to sovereignty and to control of their natural resources, in opposition to imperialism; and definition of the necessary role of the state in the protection of the rights of the people and the nation.\u00a0 Cuban socialist constitutionality has been developed on a foundation of extensive popular participation.\u00a0 And it has been developed with consciousness of its historic antecedents: The Constitution of Gu\u00e1imaro of April 10, 1869, which created the Republic of Cuba in Arms; and the Constitution of 1940, an advanced and progressive constitution, not implemented by \u201cdemocratic\u201d governments and set aside by the Batista dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>The revolutionary socialist constitutionality was announced on September 2, 1960, when the National General Assembly of the People of Cuba emitted the Declaration of Havana.\u00a0 It affirmed the right of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/28\/cuba-adopts-a-new-socialist-constitution\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair On February 24, 2019, the Cuban people overwhelmingly adopted a new constitution, as 84.4% of resident citizens voted in the constitutional referendum, with 86.8 % voting \u201cYes,\u201d 9% \u201cNo,\u201d 2.5% blank ballots, and 1.6% annulled. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba has been striving to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}