Cuba — Legal Help

Police emergency is 106, ambulance 104. If detained, you have the right under the Vienna Convention to have your embassy notified — insist on it, and say nothing without a lawyer, though English-speaking defence lawyers are scarce (your consulate keeps a list). Investigations move slowly, foreigners can be held or placed under exit bans while a case is open, and consular officers can visit and pass messages but cannot get you released. The age of consent is 16; any commercial sexual contact with a person under 18 is prosecuted as corruption of minors with severe sentences, and foreign offenders also face extraterritorial sex-tourism prosecution at home.

Avoid any confrontation with police and never offer money to an officer — a bribery charge compounds everything. Keep your passport and visa on you; spot checks near tourist nightlife are routine.