By Susana Aguirre

Thanks to a decree that rectifies the 1988 Housing Act, homes purchase and sale prohibition has changed, as well as the rules for inheritance and donation of them.

The amendment of these rules includes changing the way in which the state confiscated the properties of the people who emigrate permanently from Cuba, and they also lost their property’s rights. Although the confiscation by the state continuous, now this step is part of a family transfer through the payment to other building’s occupants

Legislative Decree number 288 of the State Council comes from article 21 of the Republic Constitution wich states: "stipulates the State’s guarantee, of personal ownership of housing that has legal dominion title, which involves the use, enjoyment and disposition of such property.”
The text of the amendment emphasizes that "the contribution need to solve the housing problem in the country, advice removal of prohibitions and limitations and transfer acts flexibility of house ownership, for the purpose of ensuring the effective use of homeowners rights.”

Full modify text can be read here: http://www.cubadebate.cu/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/go_x_035_2011.pdf

By Susana Aguirre

According to the final report issued by the Electoral Commission, the Dominican Republic managed to get the Presidency of the Central American Parliament with 99.5% of the votes of six countries members.

Manolo Pichardo, from the Dominican Liberation Party was elected as the first Dominican president of Parlacen with Edme Arnaud, from the Dominican Revolutionary Party who will manage the Secretariat.

By Eliane Portillo

Jamaica’s House of Representatives has approved a motion in support of the removal of the economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba by the United Sates.

The motion also advocates dialogue between both governments, as Jamaica prepares to put forward its position on the matter on October 25, at the United Nations General Assembly, when it is anticipated that Cuba will submit for the consideration of the General Assembly, a draft Resolution entitled “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Financial and Commercial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba”.

By C. Novak

Chinese and Cuban authorities emphasized the excellent state of relations between the two countries during the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party in the Asian nation (CCHP).

In a political-cultural event, the charge d'affaires form Beijing in Havana, Yu Bo, said that bilateral ties have been grown with great care by the leaders of the older generation, being in constant consolidation.The two countries have become good friends, comrades and brothers who trust and support each other he said, recalling that Cuba was the first nation to establish diplomatic ties with the New China more than half a century.

Bo pointed out that the Chinese-Cuban relations have past bravely tests and international vicissitudes, and are stronger with the passage of time.

Under the new circumstances, he said, we will persist in the policy toward Cuba lasting friendship, strengthen high-level visits and deepen cooperation in various fields.

The diplomat described the meeting of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), as transcendental, it happened last April.

We firmly believe that under the leadership of Raul Castro, the Party, government and people of the Greater Antilles will achieve new successes in building the socialist cause with Cuban peculiarities.

More than five decades of relations between the CCP and the CHCP, the states and peoples show us that we have passed the test of time and the obstacles encountered, said the member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban organization Miguel Diaz-Canel.

He said that both parties have found a way to consolidate and develop the traditional friendship, and reiterated the appreciation, understanding and solidarity from China to Cuba's struggle to safeguard its sovereignty and oppose the cruel economic blockade imposed by the United States.