Cuba will recognize private property, but will maintain the "irrevocability" of socialism

Cuba will recognize the role of the market and private property in its Soviet-style economic management model, but without changing the "irrevocability" of the socialist state. This was reported Saturday, the local press to reveal for the first time the details of the draft of a new Constitution that will govern in the country.
The debate on the proposed reform of the Constitution of Cuba will be one of the most anticipated Saturday that comes in a session of the National Assembly that will announce, further, the restructuring of the new Cabinet of Ministers that will accompany President Miguel Díaz-Canel in the next five years.
"The economic system maintains socialist property as essential principles of all the people, to which is added the recognition of the role of the market and new forms of ownership, including private ones," said Granma, the newspaper of the Communist Party, in an article entitled Vision to the present and the future of La Patria
The leader of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raúl Castro, has been leading a commission since June which is preparing the document which aims to update the text of the Constitution. ón, adopted in 1976 during the Cold War, although amended in 2002 to declare socialism as "irrevocable" on the island.
The former president Castro, 87, announced for the first time the need to amend the Constitution in 2011, after focusing on a series of economic reforms more open to foreign investment and small private companies.
Currently, 591,456 people are registered as self-employed, according to official data, which represents about 13% of the working population. since Castro launched his reform plan in 2010.