1- What to understand by Political Communication?
- Political communication legitimizes ideas, concepts, values, and symbols directly or indirectly related to political power, its exercise, and consolidation.
2- What is the main mission of political communication processes in Cuba?
- Processes of political communication, in correspondence with the principles declared in Article 5 of Law 162/2023, are an expression of the revolutionary thought of the people and their transforming action as a social subject to strengthen the Cuban political system and advance in the construction of the socialist society, in accordance with the postulates endorsed in the Constitution.
3- Who participates in the processes and actions of political communication?
- Individuals, groups, organizations and the State through a reflexive and deliberative dialog to strengthen socialist ideology and democracy, preserve the independence, sovereignty, identity, and culture of the nation and promote its prosperity and sustainable development.
4- What do the contents on political communication promote?
- Political communication integrates contents that promote knowledge of revolutionary history, theory and practice, their ideological references and principles, and contribute to the formation of consensus, public opinion and popular participation.
5- How can political communication actions be executed?
- Political communication actions in physical and digital public spaces are essentially executed through:
- Direct contact and permanent dialogue with people in the organizational, media and community spheres;
- Educational, artistic, literary, scientific and cultural processes;
- Content produced and published by social media;
- The use of symbolic elements; and
- The contribution of people as active subjects who can generate and
socialize content.
6- Who is responsible for the management of political communication?
- State organs, agencies and entities, mass and social organizations and fundamental means of social communication, as part of their processes and actions of political communication, are also responsible for stimulating the leading action of different social actors in the construction, implementation and control of public policies.
- For the management of political communication as regulated in the Law on Social Communication and other regulatory provisions, the subjects mentioned in the previous section plan the human, material, and financial resources required.