Legislative history off archives in Cuba (1559-2019)

Abstract

Introduction: Cuba has, in its record of archival service, with a wide legislature in this matter. With their successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses, throughout the country's history, these regulations have satisfactorily marked the national archives. Methodology: This study aims to systematize the history of Cuban archival legislation, with the aim of analyzing its influences on the structuring of the national archival history. For this, a quantum methodology was used with the main method being documentary analysis and the technique being the review of legal documents. It is carried out with an extensive bibliographic review and the deepening of the legal norms that are known to date and that have regulated in some way the activity in Cuba. Results: a systematization and a corresponding theoretical analysis of the provisions that, in terms of Archives, have been published in Cuba are obtained. Conclusions: This research solves one of the current problems of the Cuban archival reality, since there was no systematization that would reveal the legal provisions that were issued in the period 1559-2019 and their corresponding periodization. The archipelago has an important legislative tradition regarding the protection of documents and the operation of its Archives. The archival issues most alluded to in the provisions in the legislative history are: access to the Archives and the information contained in the documents and protection of the document.