domingo, 20 de abril de 2014

Let there be light Sixth Part Extraordinary 85

Articles 24 and 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, related below, are fictitious. Any similarity to other democratic and respected in real life Constitutions, is entirely coincidental and unintentional:
Article 24: The state recognizes the right of citizens to inherit legal title to a place of residence and to other personal goods and chattels. The land and other goods linked to production in the small farmers’ property may be inherited by and only be awarded to those heirs who work the land, save exceptions and as prescribed by law. The law prescribes the cases, conditions and ways under which the goods of cooperative ownership may by inherited.
Article 25: The expropriation of property for reasons of public benefit or social interest and with due
compensation is authorized. The law establishes the method for the expropriation and the bases on which the need for and usefulness of this action is to be determined, as well as the form of compensation, taking into account the interest and the economic and social needs of the person whose property has been expropriated.
Cuban emigrants before November 10, 2011, recall with bitterness the fiction of these two items, when the regime appropriated their homes and many of their belongings before they could leave the country. However, thanks to government inefficiency and the corruption, mediating with legal instruments for the growing fraudulent sale, purchase and exchange of homes, circumventing Castros' prohibitions and restrictions, they were forced, after 5 decades, to permit the sale, exchange, donation or allocation of houses; desperately seeking also to win at least something through taxes. To be continued...

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