The United States has warned that the referendum in Cuba is "another hoax" for "hiding tyranny"

The National Security Advisor of the White House, John Bolton, described the constitutional referendum taking place this Sunday in Cuba as "another disappointment" to "hide the tyranny" of Castro's "regime".

"The constitutional referendum today is another deception of the Cuban regime to conceal its repression and tyranny"Bolton said in a message on his Twitter account

"The United States Supports Cuban People's Calls for Freedom and Democracy", said the chief advisor to the president's national security Donald Trump.

In the same sense, it was expressed Marco Rubio, Florida senator and former US presidential candidate in 2016, noting that "the so-called" referendum "in Cuba is another maneuver of Cuban dictatorship to retain power."

"Today's plebiscite is a farce and fraud of the Communist Party of the Island"stressed Rubio, also in this social network.

More than eight million Cubans were called to the polls Sunday across the country (11.2 million inhabitants), where more than 25,300 polling stations operate.

The new constitution seeks to capture the controlled economic openness promoted by the former president Raul Castro, who arrived Miguel Díaz-Canel in 2018, and reflect the new Cuban society, very different from that which participated in the referendum of 1976.

The first version of the project was submitted to three months of popular consultations during which, for the first time, more than 1.4 million Cubans living abroad were included, even if they can not. not vote in the referendum.

The text submitted to the referendum Sunday was modified by 60% compared to the initial draft, after the inclusion of the proposals gathered during debates on citizens and the elimination of controversial articles like the one that opened the door to gay marriage on the island.

The revised version returns to include the term "communism"this was not in the original project; maintains the Communist Party as "the highest leading force in society"; establishes the presidential term in a maximum of two consecutive five-year periods and sets a 65-year term for first-time access to the head of state.