"Protection of human rights is congenital to socialism for its development," said Yuri Pérez Martínez, Ph.D., professor of constitutional and administrative law at the University of Havana.
In an interview with Granma, within the framework of the V International Dialogue Congress on Human Rights, the also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law argued that effective judicial protection of constitutional rights is a feature that should characterize the socialist State. This is intertwined with the subjection of all to the Constitution as the supreme legal norm, which guides the obligation to safeguard the most relevant principles, values and legal rights of society.
«The process of socialist construction implies generating constant and permanent forms and mechanisms for the protection of rights. We must understand that socialism does not spontaneously reproduce areas of democratization, and from this perspective, the theory must base more ways or ways to democratize society, while, in socialist practice, the exercise of rights and their comprehensive protection are they emerge as variables of democratic functionality”, explained the professor.
He recognized that exercising rights also implies compliance with duties, respect for the order established in the Constitution, which is a consequence of popular sovereignty expressed at the ballot box and with all the guarantees, and added that, for the existence of a fair social order, its unlimited exercise is not viable. "Constitutional rights are the most complete expression of the values and principles that are externalized in society," he specified.
He argued that the guarantee must be that the limits do not distort the full dignity of the human being as a supreme value that supports the recognition and exercise of rights and duties, therefore its prior normative configuration is essential.
In Cuba we must continue and deepen the safeguarding of all rights, taking our values and the vocation to protect human beings as a reference.
The Revolution triumphed by conquering rights, generating access to universal coverage public services, highlighted the jurist, and pointed out that socialism is built for everyone.