University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository NotiSur Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) 2-20-1990 Cuba: Communist Party Central Committee Announces Plans For 4th Congress, Political Reforms John Neagle Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur Recommended Citation Neagle, John. "Cuba: Communist Party Central Committee Announces Plans For 4th Congress, Political Reforms." (1990). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/notisur/4352 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NotiSur by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LADB Article Id: 071196 ISSN: 1060-4189 Cuba: Communist Party Central Committee Announces Plans For 4th Congress, Political Reforms by John Neagle Category/Department: General Published: Tuesday, February 20, 1990 According to the Feb. 17 issue of Granma, on Friday the Cuban Communist Party's Central Committee discussed plans for political reforms, and continued one-party rule. The Committee decided to hold its fourth Congress in the first half of 1991. Prensa Latina said the specific date will be announced on March 15. The party held its first congress in 1975. The party itself will be overhauled, and so will the government, assemblies at the local and national level and the Cuban Federation of Women. More decision-making power will go to the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. Working groups are to study ways of improving the functioning of the party and other bodies mentioned above. Maj.Gen. Sixto Batista Santana was appointed by the Central Committee to coordinate the working groups. The Prensa Latina report said, "Facing the crisis of socialism and the aggressive euphoria of American imperialism we need to continue strengthening our defenses and preparing the people to resist and conquer any aggression." The Granma article said that participants at the Friday meeting rejected "experiences alien to (Cuba's) traditions, history and idiosyncrasies." It said the survival of the Cuban revolution depended on "the destiny of socialism... the sovereignty of Latin America and the hopes of the Third World." (Basic data from Prensa Latina, Notimex, AFP, AP, Reuters, 02/17/90) -- End -- ©2011 The University of New Mexico, Latin American & Iberian Institute. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 1.