CAMAGÜEY, April 6 (Julio García Quesada, CPIC) - Government
officials in Camagüey have been instructed to properly register real
property in the city.
The instruction follows government Resolution 104, of 2000, which
establishes norms for the registry and control of all property, considered State
patrimony. After 42 years of Revolutionary government most real property is not
duly registered.
A census will be taken shortly to determine who the owners of each property
were before 1959 and the transformation that have taken place since. After the
government started confiscating properties in 1959, the Registry of Deeds was
neglected, and now the government wants to redress the situation.
"It was all a little irregular from the jurisdictional standpoint, and
no one knows for sure what the policy of confiscation was based on. Everything
seems to indicate that the Cuban government is preparing a legal framework to
forestall future claims by the former owners or their families. At least some of
the properties are still registered to their former owners," said one
source.
An official working at the Registry of Deeds in Camagüey said that 90
percent of the properties in the city used to belong to people who left the
country.
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