Editing Politics of Cuba (section)

== Human rights ==
{{Main|Human rights in Cuba}}

According to [[Human Rights Watch]], Castro constructed a "repressive machinery" that continues to deprive Cubans of their basic rights.<ref name="hrw">{{cite web|title=Cuba: Fidel Castro's Abusive Machinery Remains Intact|date=18 February 2008 |publisher=Human Rights Watch|url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/02/18/cuba-fidel-castro-s-abusive-machinery-remains-intact}}</ref> The Cuban government has been accused of numerous [[human rights abuse]]s, including [[torture]], arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions (a.k.a. ''"El Paredón"'').<ref>{{cite web | date =April 7, 1967 | url = http://www.cidh.org/countryrep/Cuba67sp/indice.htm | title =Information about human rights in Cuba | publisher =Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos | language = es| access-date =2006-07-09 }}</ref> Human Rights Watch reports that the government represses nearly all forms of political dissent.<ref name="hrw"/>

The country's first ever transgender municipal delegate was elected in the province of [[Villa Clara Province|Villa Clara]] in early 2013. [[Adela Hernández]] is a resident of the town of [[Caibarién]] and works as a nurse electrocardiogram specialist. In Cuba, delegates are not professional politicians and, therefore, do not receive a government salary.<ref name="Havana">{{cite news|title=Cuba's First Transsexual Politician|url=http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=101090|access-date=9 January 2014|newspaper=Havana Times|date=8 January 2014|author=Fernando Ravsberg}}</ref>

In 2022, the Family Code constitutional amendment passed. This followed hundreds of painstaking assembly discussions within communities and institutions across the island. This Code ensures the protection of rights of adoption, surrogacy, transgender-affirmation, same-sex marriages and the legitimacy of intergenerational households.