Background: the National Assembly of People's Power, the chamber that cleared Cuba's new economic programme

Background

When Cuba's Foreign Minister spoke in the general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly session, he said the country's legislature had already adopted a programme to transform the economic and social model. That legislature is the National Assembly of People's Power. He stressed that the change is meant to work inside the socialist system and the existing constitutional framework, not to replace them. The same speech placed Havana's offer of talks with Washington on the basis of sovereign equality and international law. It is the Assembly, not the executive alone, that carries such a programme in Cuba's own account of the decision. For an exam the durable point is simply the name and role of the chamber. Candidates are regularly asked to match a country to the name of its national legislature.