Julio César Guanche social organisations and policies. For this reason, I expressed that the condition of “citizen” has had less power than that granted by other political —not institutional— statuses, such as the status of “revolutionary”. On the legal level, I presented the modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship and explained that the citizenship law has not been enacted. I specified that Decree 358 of 1944 is partially in force. In the face of this, it lacks the application and generates numerous inconveniences. I commented that in practice, since 1959 until today, concessions of citizenship by naturalisation have been scarce, since a rigorous criterion of selectivity is applied; that the Constitution does not make distinctions between nationals and naturalised citizens regarding equality, but that the regular practice has been the concession of permanent residence to “settled” foreigners —not citizenship—; that the automatic renunciation of citizenship is not admitted, but legally changing it is, although not double citizenship. To conclude, I argued that the lack of a Citizenship Law means that there is no regular procedure for its loss and that the result is that, in practice, Cubans who reside outside the national territory, and who have acquired a new citizenship, do not lose the Cuban one. RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2020/3 - © 2020 Author(s) 27