Sistemas e instituciones.
Ecuador’s government is organized into five constitutionally recognized branches, though power in practice concentrates around the familiar executive, legislative, and judicial functions common to presidential systems. The current framework dates to the 2008 constitution, which reorganized several state institutions and introduced participatory and electoral bodies alongside the traditional three branches. The presidency serves as both […]
The Dominican Republic operates as a representative democracy organized around three constitutionally separated branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. This framework, rooted in the country’s 1844 independence and refined through numerous subsequent constitutions, establishes a presidential system in which power is distributed to prevent its concentration in any single office, while still granting the […]
Dominica is a parliamentary republic with a non-executive presidency, combining a ceremonial head of state with a prime minister who holds the working authority of government. The president is elected by the House of Assembly for a five-year term, while the prime minister is drawn from the elected members who command majority support in the […]
Cuba is governed as a unitary socialist republic in which the Communist Party of Cuba is constitutionally recognized as the sole legal party and the leading force of both state and society. The current constitution, approved by referendum in 2019, reaffirms this one-party framework and centralizes political authority rather than distributing it among competing parties, […]
Costa Rica is organized as a presidential, representative democratic republic with power divided among three separate branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. This structure, rooted in the 1949 constitution, has helped the country maintain one of the longest continuous democratic traditions in Latin America, without a standing army since the abolition of its military […]
