Cuba opens discussion of constitution overhaul to citizens abroad

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba announced on Friday that its citizens living abroad could participate in a public debate over planned changes to its 1976 constitution, a first for the communist-run country that for many years has excluded…

• Reuters Staff

A draft proposal of changes to the constitution was passed last month by the National Assembly and will be debated by the public in 35,000 workplaces and community meetings in Cuba into November, before a final version is submitted to a…

The amendments maintain Cuba’s one-party socialist system but institute a…

• Cuba opens discussion…