In recent weeks Cuba鈥檚 communist government has been rolling out a revision to the island鈥檚 1976 Constitution. The regime is now making an unusual outreach for feedback 鈥� across the Florida Straits.
Proposed changes to Cuba鈥檚 Constitution have been filtering out on state media this summer. Such as: Officially allowing private property. Or the creation of a prime minister to help the president run the government. Or the legalization of gay marriage. (You can read ).
Cubans will vote on the revised charter in a referendum later this year. 鈥淩eferendum鈥� is, of course, a relative term in a communist country: No one really expects anyone but the regime鈥檚 leaders to have the final say.
But over the weekend, those leaders broadened that fa莽ade of popular input beyond Cuba. They said 鈥� including Cuban exiles here in South Florida 鈥� to chime in. They鈥檙e even preparing an online form for logging diaspora opinion on the Minister of Foreign Affairs' website, .
That site isn鈥檛 likely to be overwhelmed, however. Most Cuban-born Cubans abroad consider the constitutional revision process rigged. And they say the regime has already ruled out the change they want most: allowing multi-party involvement in Cuban politics.
