Cuban Social Communication Law: A NEW VIEW (I).

The organs of the State, their directors, officials and employees have the obligation to respect, attend to and respond to the people, maintain close ties with them and submit to their control, in accordance with Article 10 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba.

As has been commented on other occasions, in Cuba the laws that are put into effect, in order to make them known and explain their content, are not disclosed through the so-called exposition of motives, those motives are contained in the «Por Cuantos» of the law to be enacted.

This Social Communication Law, number 162, transfers to the population the criterion that social communication is a socio-cultural process of exchange of information and interpretation of reality, which contributes to strengthen the unity of the people, to consolidate the ideology of our society and to defend the independence, sovereignty and security of the Homeland, which acquires greater transcendence in the communicational and cultural scenario of the country.

Hence, the organs of the State, their directors, officials and employees have the obligation to respect, attend to and respond to the people, maintain close ties with them and submit to their control, in accordance with Article 10 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, the Supreme Law of the Cuban nation.

Recently, the Council of Ministers of Cuba was informed of the strategy to take it to social networks.

These communicational processes, according to the circulated and disclosed document, «find their channels in transversal Political Communication practices to build trust, articulate discourses and mobilize wills.»

Therefore, the State distinguishes the decisive and strategic role of social communication in the sustainability and prosperity of the nation, it assumes it as an essential pillar of its management, which is the communicative practice in Cuba and in its future projection, which require implementing, as already legislated, a normative provision of higher rank, regulating the Social Communication System for its strategic and integrated management in the Cuban socialist society.

The country’s Political Communication Strategy, which had previously been approved by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. This Strategy «is based on dialogic, transparent and responsible communicative processes, managed in an integrated and strategic manner», according to the document disclosed.

Written by Dr Osvaldo Manuel Álvarez Torres.