Access to Healthcare
The Constitution makes public health a right of all persons and makes the State responsible for guaranteeing access, free of charge and of quality, and it says persons rather than citizens. The migration and foreigners laws then build on that. A provisional or permanent resident is placed on the same footing as a Cuban in rights and duties, with no exception for health; provisional and humanitarian residents are expressly given similar rights to health, work, social security, education, justice and family reunification as permanent residents. A non-resident foreigner is placed on the same footing as a resident in access to health, but the law adds the words that matter - in accordance with what the relevant legislation establishes - and that legislation we have not read. A provisional resident is separately required to hold contracted medical insurance.
At a glance
- Constitutional right
- Public health, of all persons
- Permanent and provisional residents
- Same footing as Cuban citizens
- Non-resident foreigners
- Equated in access to health, subject to the relevant legislation
- Medical insurance for a provisional resident
- Required
- Medical insurance to enter as a tourist
- Not in the entry requirements we read
- Medical insurance for a multiple-entry visa
- Required
- Medical examinations for permanent residence
- Radiographic and serological
Requirements
- Provisional and permanent residents: the same footing as Cuban citizens, save for political rights and public office
- Provisional and humanitarian residents: similar rights to health, work, social security, education and justice as permanent residents
- Non-resident foreigners: the same footing as residents in access to health, in accordance with the relevant legislation
- Provisional residents must hold contracted medical insurance during the year of provisional residence
- Applicants for permanent residence must present radiographic and serological examinations
- A medical-expenses insurance policy is required for the multiple-entry visa
In detail
The Constitution says persons, not citizens
Article 72 opens with the words that decide the question for residents: public health is a right of all persons, and it is the State's responsibility to guarantee access, gratuitousness and quality. It closes by sending the manner of provision to ordinary law. The migration and foreigners laws then do their part: a provisional or permanent resident is equated with a Cuban in rights and duties except for political rights and public office, and health is not among the exceptions.
A visitor is equated too, and then the sentence qualifies itself
Article 65(2) of the migration law places non-resident foreigners on the same footing as residents in the protection of their person and property, in receiving information, in access to justice and in health - and then adds "de acuerdo con lo que se establece en la legislación correspondiente". The qualification is doing real work and we cannot say what it does, because the legislation it points at is the public health law, which we did not read. Anyone who has read that a visitor to Cuba pays for treatment, or is covered by an insurance policy sold with the air ticket, is reading about that other instrument and not about this one.
Where insurance is actually required
Two places, and neither is the arrival hall. A provisional resident must hold contracted medical insurance during the year of provisional residence, as one of the seven conditions of suitable conduct and social insertion. And an applicant for a multiple-entry visa must hold a policy covering medical expenses. The regulation's own list of entry requirements, article 221, is three items long and insurance is not one of them; the list of extras an officer may demand, article 222, has five and insurance is not one of those either.
Country-level policy
On 5 May 2026 the Gaceta Oficial published, in a single ordinary edition, three laws and three subordinate instruments that replace Cuban migration, foreigners and citizenship law entirely: Ley 171 de Migración, Ley 172 de Ciudadanía, Ley 173 de Extranjería, their two regulations and the Citizenship Register regulation. Every one of them states that it enters into force one hundred and eighty days after publication, which is 1 November 2026. Until that day the law in force is Ley 1312 of 1976 as amended, Ley 1313 of 1976 and Decreto-Ley 352 of 2017, all of which the new laws repeal. This is not an inference: a decree-law of April 2026 says in its own recitals that Ley 1312 is still in application and that Ley 171's commencement is a hundred and eighty days away, which is why it had to legislate separately.
Cuba publishes in a single official gazette and an instrument carries the gazette's identifier as part of its name: GOC-2026-290-O39 is the Migration Law, and the O39 is edition thirty-nine of the ordinary series. There are three series. An edición ordinaria is the regular run; an edición extraordinaria is used when something cannot wait, and the two series number separately, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 both appeared on 5 May 2026. The third series is what makes consolidated Cuban law readable at all: an edición especial reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada, with the amendments worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. That is where a consolidation date comes from here - the day the special edition was published - and never from the name of the edition.
Exceptions by origin
No exceptions recorded
Nothing we have read treats any nationality differently for this topic. The rule above applies to everyone.
What the law says
«La salud pública es un derecho de todas las personas y es responsabilidad del Estado garantizar el acceso, la gratuidad y la calidad de los servicios de atención, protección y recuperación. El Estado, para hacer efectivo este derecho, instituye un sistema de salud a todos los niveles accesible a la población y desarrolla programas de prevención y educación, en los que contribuyen la sociedad y las familias. La ley define el modo en que los servicios de salud se prestan.»Our translation - not official
Public health is a right of all persons and it is the responsibility of the State to guarantee access to, the gratuitousness of and the quality of the services of care, protection and recovery. In order to give effect to this right the State institutes a health system at all levels accessible to the population and develops programmes of prevention and education, in which society and families contribute. The law defines the manner in which health services are provided.
About this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Los extranjeros que ostenten la clasificación migratoria de residente provisional o residente permanente, en el disfrute de los derechos y el cumplimiento de sus deberes se equiparan a los ciudadanos cubanos, sin otras limitaciones que las relacio- nadas con el ejercicio de los derechos políticos y el de ocupación de cargos públicos o administrativos que exijan, como requisito para ocuparlos, tener la condición de ciuda- dano cubano.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners holding the migratory classification of provisional resident or permanent resident are, in the enjoyment of rights and the fulfilment of their duties, placed on the same footing as Cuban citizens, with no limitations other than those relating to the exercise of political rights and to the holding of public or administrative offices which require Cuban citizenship as a condition of holding them.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Los extranjeros bajo las clasificaciones migratorias de residente provi- sional y humanitario se equiparan a los extranjeros que tienen la clasificación migratoria de residente permanente y tienen similares derechos a la salud, trabajo, seguridad social, educación, acceso a la justicia y reunificación familiar, durante el término de residencia autorizado y de acuerdo con las regulaciones que se establecen en la presente Ley, la Ley de Extranjería, sus reglamentos, y la Ley de Ciudadanía y las demás disposiciones nor- mativas vigentes.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners under the migratory classifications of provisional and humanitarian resident are placed on the same footing as foreigners holding the migratory classification of permanent resident and have similar rights to health, work, social security, education, access to justice and family reunification, for the term of residence authorised and in accordance with the regulations established in this Law, the Foreigners Law, their regulations, the Citizenship Law and the other legal provisions in force.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
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Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Los extranjeros admitidos en Cuba bajo protección temporal por razo- nes humanitarias se equiparan a los extranjeros residentes permanentes, además de los derechos comprendidos en el artículo anterior, en los derechos de seguridad y asistencia social.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners admitted into Cuba under temporary protection for humanitarian reasons are placed on the same footing as permanent resident foreigners, in addition to the rights covered by the preceding article, in the rights to social security and social assistance.
Words broken across a line in the Gaceta's PDF keep their hyphen here. The quotation is not tidied.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«En lo relacionado con los derechos, deberes y garantías a que se refiere la presente Ley, se equiparan a los extranjeros residentes en el territorio nacional en la protección de su persona y bienes, a recibir la información que requieran durante su estancia en el país, el acceso a la justicia y la salud de acuerdo con lo que se establece en la legisla»Our translation - not official
As regards the rights, duties and guarantees to which this Law refers, they are placed on the same footing as foreigners resident in the national territory in the protection of their person and property, in receiving the information they need during their stay in the country, in access to justice and health in accordance with what is established in the relevant legislation
Quoted to the page break. The equation of a non-resident foreigner with a resident in access to health is qualified by a reference to other legislation, which we have not read.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«tener una fuente de ingresos financieros lícita que le permita sostener sus gastos promedios de residencia en el país; d) poseer una cuenta bancaria en el país que opere con regularidad; e) poseer seguro médico contratado;»Our translation - not official
have a lawful source of financial income allowing them to meet their average costs of residing in the country; d) hold a bank account in the country operated regularly; e) hold contracted medical insurance;
About this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«Además de los documentos establecidos en los apartados anteriores, los interesados deben presentar exámenes radiográficos y serológicos.»Our translation - not official
In addition to the documents established in the preceding paragraphs, applicants must present radiographic and serological examinations.
About this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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«c) tener póliza de seguro con cobertura para gastos médicos; y»Our translation - not official
c) hold an insurance policy with cover for medical expenses; and
A requirement of the multiple-entry visa. It is not among the entry requirements in article 221 or the discretionary extras in article 222.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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Practical notes
We did not read Cuba's public health legislation. Article 65(2) of Ley 171 makes the equation of non-resident foreigners with residents in access to health subject to that legislation, so nothing here states what a visitor is charged or entitled to.
A general requirement to hold travel medical insurance to enter Cuba is stated by many sources. It is not in Decreto 136/2025, which is the instrument that will govern entry from 1 November 2026. We searched the Gaceta's own keyword index under seguro and found no instrument imposing it. That is a statement about where we looked, not a finding that no such instrument exists.
The migration and foreigners laws and their regulations come into force on 1 November 2026. The constitutional article is in force now.
- issuesGaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba, Edición Extraordinaria No. 5 de 10 de abril de 2019 - Constitución de la República
Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba - Ministerio de Justicia
About this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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- issuesGaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba, Edición Ordinaria No. 39 de 5 de mayo de 2026
Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba - Ministerio de Justicia
About this source
Cuba's single official gazette, run by the Ministry of Justice. An instrument's identity includes its gazette reference - Ley 171/2024 is GOC-2026-290-O39 - and there is no competing publisher of record. Three series: ordinaria, the regular run; extraordinaria, numbered separately and used for what must take effect on publication, so Ordinaria 39 and Extraordinaria 60 share the date 5 May 2026; and especial, which reprints a single instrument anotada y concordada with every amendment worked in and a footnote under each amended article naming the instrument that changed it. The special editions are the only consolidated Cuban law there is, and they are good: each states in its opening note the decree-law that ordered it and lists every amendment incorporated.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: Its online archive begins in 1990, which for migration means the law actually in force until 1 November 2026 - Ley 1312 of 1976, Ley 1313 of 1976 and the decrees-law 302 of 2012 and 327 of 2015 - cannot be read at the publisher of record while the laws replacing them can. Its own migration keyword index lists nothing earlier than 1999. It cannot be cited for consolidated law outside the especial series: an ordinaria or extraordinaria edition prints acts as made, and an amending decree-law there amends by instruction rather than by reprinting. A consolidation date must come from the masthead of the special edition and never from the name of the law or from the last amendment incorporated. Its PDFs break words across lines with a hyphen that survives into any verbatim quotation, and its summary pages are not always reliable - the customs special edition's contents page names the instrument Decreto-Ley 22/2021 while the decree printed two pages later is dated 24 November 2020. Nothing here is available through the extraction service in usable form; every reading was taken with pdftotext.
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