By Benjamin Noria
HAVANA TIMES – On December 9, 2023, I read an article that Cuban PhD in Economic Sciences Mauricio de Miranda published on Facebook. In this article, he says that the Ministry of Interior published Resolution 19/2023 in the Cuban Republic’s Official Gazette last Thursday. The Chief of the Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Investigation Directorate intends to use this to include individuals and organizations on a National List of People and Entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations, because of their involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, funding, support, or commission of terrorist acts unfolding in Cuba or in other countries.
Furthermore, he says that it will inform the President Supreme Court, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Ministry of Justice. Miranda says he doesn’t understand how a Resolution from the Ministry of Interior can hold the Public Prosecutor’s Office and Courts accountable and give orders to these authorities to enforce the Resolution.
That said, this monster of a Resolution exists because there is no Rule of Law in Cuba, nor separation of powers like Montesquieu envisaged.
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