Before his take over in 1959, Castro promised the Cuban people to restore the 1940 Constitution, to provide an entirely civilian government, to have full democratic political freedom of statement and press and to have honest and free elections.
Apparently, the time isn't right for that yet.
Re your posts to my 315...I was being sarastic. No tyrant who has ever set freedoms aside for a 'crisis ' has been in a hurry to hand them back.
That said I do mourn Putin's open seizure of power because his abiliteies would have been a formidable asset to a truly new Russia rather than a modern remake of the Soviets....