STATE, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA:
A DESCRIPTION OF CUBAN CONSTITUTIONALISM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22409/41xsrb36Abstract
Overcoming dependence and underdevelopment in Latin America requires understanding its different constitutional experiences. Based on this general premise, the present work aimed to describe Cuba's political-legal institutions, considering the form of organization of the Cuban State, the electoral procedures for the democratization of power and the instruments for the protection of human rights. The work methodology consisted of qualitative research based on bibliographic review and documentary analysis. The results of the study revealed the efforts and difficulties to implement the principle of popular power and the protection of civil liberties without compromising the social advances obtained with the 1959 Revolution. In this way, the work contributes to elucidating the general framework of Latin American constitutionalism by presenting the institutional design of the only Socialist State on the continent.