Cuba presented this Tuesday the preliminary draft of the Law of Social Communication to regulate the contents in the presswithout recognizing any other type of ownership of the local media other than the state media, as stated in the Constitution.
(You might be interested in: Cuba, plunged into an acute crisis one year after the 11J protests)
The document will go through a consultation starting this Tuesday that should end in September, commented the vice president of the state Union of Journalists of Cuba, Jorge Legañoa, without offering more details about the legislative path prior to its eventual approval.
(You might be interested in: 11J: The US promises to help Cubans in their fight for democracy)
The journalist -accompanied by two other press and social communication officials- emphasized that the regulations cover the institutional, media and community spheres, and that is the result of several months of research.
Legañoa described the preliminary project as “unprecedented, robust” and as “an opportunity to educate the public in matters of communication.”
The document, he pointed out, is based on the Constitution in force since 2019.
It states that the national media “are socialist property” and “cannot be the object of another type of property.”
The rule announced this Monday, which contains 69 articles, includes a regulation that prohibits the use of content “to make propaganda in favor of war, of a foreign state hostile to the interests of the nation, terrorism, violence and the apology of hatred among Cubans, with the aim of destabilizing the socialist rule of law,” among others.
It also points out that the country’s social communication system has the purpose of “fostering consensus and national unity around the Homeland, the Revolution and the Communist Party of Cuba.”
It also recognizes the income generated by advertising as one of the ways to
the financial management of the media, as long as this is not
against “the principles that govern” the “socialist society” of the island.
Cuba lacks legislation on the press or communication since only policies in the media sphere dictated by the Communist Party (PCC, sole, legal) are in force.
None recognizes the independent media critical of the government and that operate
in a legal vacuum.
Last May, Cuba approved its new Penal Code in which, among other things, it sanctions with one to three years in prison “whoever spreads false news” with the purpose of “disturbing international peace or endangering the prestige or the credit of the Cuban State”.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from EFE
More world news:
-Trump incited mob that attacked US Capitol, Committee says
-Pope Francis: ‘We are living the Third World War in pieces’
-UN figures more than 5,000 civilians killed by the war in Ukraine
#Cuba #bill #seek #regulate #media #Havana