08.+Government

__** Government **__

-Cuban Government is constitutionally defined as "socialist state guided by the principles of Jose Marti, and the olitical ideas of Marx, the father of the communist states, Ergels and Lenin." -The current constitution ascribes the Communist Party of Cuba as "leading force of society and of the state." -Cuba is the only authoritarian country in both of the Americas. -The Communist Party's Department of Revolutionary Orientation "develops and coordinates propoganda startegies." -The executive power is used by the Cuban Government -The executive power is represented by the Council of State and the Council of Ministers -The legislative power is used through the unicameral National assembly of People's power -The National Assembly of People's power is constituted as the maximum authority of State -Raul Castro is: - President of the Council State - President of the Counsil of Ministers/ Prime Minister - First Secretary of the Communist Party - Commander-in-Cheif of Revolutionary Armed Forces -Ricardo Alarcon is the President of the National Assembly



- Haitian politics take place in semi-presidential republic -The President is elected by the popular vote -The Prime Minister acts as the head of the government -Haiti uses executive power -The President and the Prime Minister constitute the government together -Legislateve power is used by the government and by two chambers of National assembly of Haiti -The central government delegates powers to the departments without constitutional need for consent -The political system was set in the Constitution on March 29, 1987 -The Prime Minister enforces laws and is responsible for the nation's defense -The President is also responsible for the nation's defense -Yvon Neptune was the Prime Minister on March 4, 2002 -Neptune was replaced by Gerard Latortue in February 2004 -Neptune spent a year, plus some, in jail because he was accused of complicity in an alleged massacre in Saint Marc -Jacques-Edouard Alexis was the last Prime Minister and he entered in 2006 and was removed in April of 2008