Estado de derecho y socialismo en Cuba: un análisis desde la reforma constitucional del 2019

The idea of the legitimate limit to state power represented by the Rule of Law has functioned as a meta-organizing principle of the public sphere, and as an essential guarantee of the gradual process of democratization experienced throughout modernity. The non-recognition of it by the communist political systems of the twentieth century responds to the characteristics of the power structures assumed by these regimes. This article is a first analytical approach to the recognition of the Socialist State of Law concept in the first article of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba in the year 2019. It is based on the idea that its introduction is an expression of the set of contradictions that are generated in the process of updating socialism on the island in the early 21st century, where the transformation of the general rules of operation of the State impacts the very nature of socialism in Cuba.