The more than 400 deputies who make up the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) this week have reviewed Cuba´s current situation focusing on social plights and on an in-depth work agenda in which results of the implementation of several laws already approved, such as the Family Code, have not been absent.

On Friday, three new laws were finally passed unanimously, one of them related to Public Health, enacted after a broad debate in which deputies agreed that it is a novel norm that responds to Cubans´ demands.

The initiative includes provisions such as the right of people to have access to a dignified death and it is also the first one to independently recognize sexual and reproductive rights.

The deputies, on the other hand, approved the law of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, which sets forth the organization, functions and structure of the General Prosecutor’s Office. This is a project that defends the socialist rule of law and social justice, and the equality of all before the law.

Another critical and novel law approved has to do with a System of Attention to the Complaints and Petitions of the people, which allows citizens more guarantees and rights.

When taking to the floor, Cuba´s Justice Minister Oscar Silvera Martínez considered this new law has a high impact on the materialization of individual rights, places the trust of the people in the institutionality and is in harmony with the Constitution of the Republic.

It is a necessary law to the duty of guaranteeing the full exercise of the people and the credibility of the institutions as a requirement of the socialist state of law, Oscar Silvera said.

On this legislative day, there was also a moment to deal with the updating of foreign investment in Cuba. In this regard, the First Deputy Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Minister, Ana Teresita González Fraga, said that about 42 foreign investment deals were approved in 2023 and there are 11 others that could be set in the short term.

She also recalled that the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for over 60 years continues to be major hurdle to the country´s economic development.

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