page_title: Cuba española
section_title: A problem of nationality
hierarchical_section_title: Cuba española / A problem of nationality
caption_attribution_description: Español: Escudo de Cuba española
context_page_description: Spanish Cuba is a contemporary citizens' initiative, launched in 2008 from an idea of José Ramón Morales. It pleads for the re-integration of Cuba to the Spanish kingdom as an overseas territory upon mutual agreement between Cuba and Spain, followed by a referendum to be approved in both nations.
context_section_description: The restoration of Spanish national origin for natives of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, dispossessed of Spanish nationality under Article IX of the Treaty of Paris a legitimate claim of current descendants of Spaniards living abroad. The new provisions for the acquisition of Spanish citizenship to the Sephardic Jews and the Law of Historical Memory, both adopted by the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2007 only restore nationality to a part of the Spanish residents outside of the peninsula, but could be extended to all descendants that request it. In that sense, according to Angel Capellán, General Counsel for the United States, it is essential to create a comprehensive national law that restores the right to Spanish citizenship to all who wish to reclaim it, also including representation in the Congress of Deputies. The Spanish Cuba citizens’ movement bases its current claims on this essential point.
  February 7, 2014.  The current Spanish government announced a controversial bill project in which it recognizes the right of Sephardi Jews to obtain the Spanish citizenship. Thus, it opens the legal way for the Spanish descendants of former overseas territories to request the Spanish citizenship as well.
caption: Escudo de Cuba española
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