There is a letter from José Martí to Juan Gualberto Gómez, written in New York on January 29, 1895, which contains a transcendental phrase for Cuban revolutionary thought. The Master assures his companion of ideals, in reference to what would be a Cuba free from colonialism: “We will conquer all justice.”
The statement, with overtones of prophecy, recently came to my memory, when I attended from the small screen to the debates of our Parliament, a genuine representative of the people and sovereign expression of his will, which honor what the Apostle said that day – The eve of his trip to Santo Domingo to meet with Máximo Gómez and then set sail for Cuba, where he would fall in combat months later. Well, everything that was discussed in that forum aims to achieve more and more justice.
I recalled that, while our parliamentarians are convened to perfect the institutionality of the rule of law and ratify the humanistic nature of the Revolution, those from other countries take a seat in their benches to approve large resources destined to manufacture weapons, support despotic governments, cut social spending , finance actions
meddling and promoting military interventions.
I also recalled that in order to aspire to congressmen, deputies, senators, representatives —or whatever they are called in their countries—, the candidates to occupy those seats must first undertake strenuous and costly electoral campaigns in search of popular support, often tinged by robbery scandals. and riddled with promises that seldom keep.
While those seek more power and privilege, Cuban assembly members only aspire to become public servants; and the quoted phrase is relevant because precisely our Parliament is concerned with achieving justice when it legislates and when it oversees compliance with what is approved by the government in each territory.
For that purpose the 7th was consecrated. Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, in its 9th. Legislature, where, among other points on its agenda, four laws were debated and approved that entail important changes in the Cuban judicial and procedural system, for the benefit of the citizens and in keeping with what is endorsed in our Constitution.
Once again, the institutionality and internal order should improve, but this time the rigor with which the bills were prepared for presentation to the deputies is striking. These are not texts conceived by power groups in their aseptic offices, but rather have the plurality of socialist democracy, since they arrived at the conclave enriched by the criteria and experience of specialists, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers and professors. of the Law career of the universities.
These projects include the Law of the Administrative Process, a text that offers new ways to process and settle litigation and claims that appear in the varied range of contexts of the public administration, for which it was taken into account, in addition to the opinions of experts , those of the population, who also contributed here their considerations through the social networks of the Ministry of Justice.
Now, when a decision in that instance does not satisfy the plaintiff – it can be a worker, a group and even the administration itself – it will be possible to resort to the judicial process more expeditiously, to guarantee the impartial, calm look of those who know the law, and the best way to make it work so that each act brings us closer to Marti’s ideal of justice, conquered with arms yesterday and defended today in the field of ideas with the help of the people.
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