ABSTRACT

During the period between the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the inauguration of the Organs of People's Power in 1976, Cuba experimented with a series of provisional governmental structures. Fidel Castro and his adherents moved into an institutional vacuum when they defeated the old regime in Cuba in 1959. According to Carollee Bengelsdorf the enemy was weak, with no coherent ruling class, no party structure, and no ideology, a circumstance that helps explain the lack of permanent political structure in the beginning of the revolutionary government. The municipal assembly analyzes, discusses, supervises, monitors, inspects, and controls the social, economic, judicial, and political affairs of the municipality. It also ratifies and dismisses administrators for local enterprises and entities and municipal judges. It participates in formulating and overseeing the municipal budget and economic and social plan, which it must approve.