they deemed it vital to have a complete and “far reaching” discussion about it. People as young as junior high school students got enthusiastically interested in the Code, and had debates and discussions about it as the first law to have tremendous importance to their future. The plan for the discussion of the code was announced by Blas Roca at the Women’s Congress. Roca was a very active member of the Orthodox party. And by then he was Secretariat and head of the committee to draft new laws. He is now the president of the national People’s Assembly. The Family Code was very important to the Cuban people at the time of its implementation into the Cuban Law books. Like all of Cuba’s most important laws, the Family Code had been published in a tabloid edition in order for it to reach everybody in Cuba; virtually every man, woman, and young person who wanted to read and study it could have access to it. Cuban people are able to quickly master the new code in meetings through the trade unions, the CDRs, the FMC, the schools, and so on. Because most Cuban citizens attend more than one of these meetings, people take multiple advantages to learn and discuss the code until they digest all the information they need to know about it point by point. Because the government wanted to ensure the Code favors all and not some, people were encouraged at these meetings to ask questions and suggest additions, amendments, and or deletions. “The way this process works is that a record is kept of each meeting, the results are sent through the respective organizations to their highest level, where they are tabulated, computed, and turned over to the original committee (adjacent, at the time, to the party’s Central Committee, now adjacent to the National Assembly).” The Family Code was officially given to the Cuban people on March 8, 1975, which marks International Women’s Day in Cuba. Substantive and procedural law Criminal law Cuba's criminal code was based on Spanish law until 1956 Controversial portions of Cuba's criminal code include vague provisions providing for the arrest of persons committing anti-revolutionary acts. Cuban Criminal Code however does not cover international i Private property Cuban law regarding private property has been heavily criticized as offering little to no protection to private property. In 1992, in response to the Special Period, the