The Communication Law in Cuba

On June 5, the Cuban Official Gazette officializes the legislation and its regulations, instruments without which what was approved more than a year ago by the deputies of the Cuban Parliament would not be what it is definitively as of this date.

That is why this act turns this Wednesday’s event into a transcendental moment since, despite the delay in time, it is the first platform that in Cuba gives character of law to communication, a claim of decades of experts in the field and other people in need of this sphere to gain the importance it has in the world.

It is known because it has been insisted in the run-up to its official approval, that the law transversalizes the whole society since it covers the media, institutional, community and commercial spheres, which is like saying the whole of Cuba, since as citizens we are involved in these spheres, in one way or another.

Therefore, this is not a matter for academics and professionals in the field, even if they were the main promoters of its implementation. In the first and last instance, the purpose of communication is the public, the people, those who need access to accurate, timely, utilitarian information, in line with the right granted to them by the Constitution of the Republic.