Former Cuban Judge, Edel Gonzalez Jimenez, says that Cuba’s second highest prison rate in the world is “typical of a system of law in which the sanctioning element prevails over compliance with citizens’ rights and the duties of the State.”
“When a State lacks material and financial resources, and its own policies for social inclusion, it generally resorts to the use of brute force. The use of brute force in a State is not well regarded by the international community or by its own citizens.”
“That is why we have seen that since 2019 (in Cuba) norms have been issued that regulate violations in practically all scenarios of human conduct: in the workplace, in the exercise of self-employment, in public spaces.”
In Cuba there is a “proliferation of informal garbage dumps and the lack of containers, despite the fact that citizens are required not to dump waste on public roads. Furthermore, in a country where the population needs foreign currency to travel outside the country and even to cover basic needs, the State penalizes the purchase and sale of foreign currency between individuals, despite the fact that it is not capable of selling these currencies to citizens.”
The Government’s need for foreign currency and money has led to the arrest of people who have some foreign currency to “ provisional imprisonment, the confiscation of all the money that is seized and exemplary prison sentences.”
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The Cuban regime uses ‘criminal and administrative law’ to exercise violence against its citizens, Diario de Cuba (Jan. 10, 2024).
