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In the criminal sphere, the crisis is not new either. Criminal policies have been more important than the frank interpretation of the law throughout the history of socialist institutionalization. Abominations have been conceived as the « pre-criminal danger index », fortunately abrogated in the new Criminal Procedure Law, or "prioritized crimes" (not recognized in the law but present in the daily life of criminal law operators in Cuba). A crime that is considered prioritized must be judged differently from that indicated by law, its consequences transcend the moment of the investigation and its possible conviction because it goes as far as the prohibition of the penal benefits that a sanctioned person deserves.

If the crime is prioritized, the sanctioned Phone Number List may find himself facing a dead end. Here too the administrative controls have been immense. Judges are inspected for their acquittals, prosecutors for not upholding the request for a high sanctioning framework for the accused, The 2019 Constitution maintained the rule, already existing in the 1976 Constitution, that the courts receive directives from the Council of State. With this, the influence of the Communist Party in the administration of justice is rounded off, because in Cuba the Party directs the State and the entire society.



 Accordingly, the principle, also constitutional, of the independence of judges is in question. This practice could be seen in the video , recently broadcast by Diario de Cuba, from a meeting held in 2018 between leaders of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of the Interior. In it, the president of the Supreme Court declares out loud that the administration of justice is agreed between the different bodies involved in the criminal process and makes it clear how the People's Courts help the Prosecutor's Office to fix their files and provisional accusatory conclusions in order to to categorically punish the accused.