Same ol line of crap I see, muddle.
So, according to you Cuba's excellent universal health care system and excellent universal education system is forced on Cubans and their children by dictatorship?
Please explain how that works.
Cuba's democracy is much more representative of the will of the people than in the USA.
The Cuban citizenry desired and pushed for a full high quality health care system accessible to all.. with hard work and representation they got it. The Cuban citizenry desired and pushed for a full education system accessible to all.. with hard work and representation they got it. The Cuban citizenry desired and pushed for independence and full sovereignty, full union representation and fair labor standards, full housing rights, full social safety net.. and they got it by being
fully active in politics in Cuba.
Your oft repeated refrains of Cuba's "dictatorship" completely disregard the actions of the Cuban people and their government.
You, Muddle, have never been to Cuba, and you lack understanding of Cuba's electoral processes, but yet, you choose to repeatedly spew the bought and paid for wingnut US government/Miamicuban "exile" propaganda, despite ovewhelming evidence otherwise. Hmmmm.
FYI - Here are some of the major parties in Cuba. The union parties hold the majority of seats in the Assembly.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/cu.html* Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) {Communist Party of Cuba}
* Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Cuba (PDC) {Christian Democratic Party of Cuba} - Oswaldo Paya's Catholic party
* Partido Solidaridad Democrática (PSD) {Democratic Solidarity Party}
* Partido Social Revolucionario Democrático Cubano {Cuban Social Revolutionary Democratic Party}
* Coordinadora Social Demócrata de Cuba (CSDC) {Social Democratic Coordination of Cuba}
* Unión Liberal Cubana {Cuban Liberal Union}
Plenty of info on this long thread,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=6300&forum=DCForumID70http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/democracy.htmThis system in Cuba is based upon universal adult suffrage for all those aged 16 and over. Nobody is excluded from voting, except convicted criminals or those who have left the country. Voter turnouts have usually been in the region of 95% of those eligible .
There are direct elections to municipal, provincial and national assemblies, the latter represent Cuba's parliament.
Electoral candidates are not chosen by small committees of political parties. No political party, including the Communist Party, is permitted to nominate or campaign for any given candidates.
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Representative Fidel Castro was elected to the National Assembly as a representative of District #7 in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
He is one of the elected 607 representatives in the Cuban National Assembly after the elections of 2002-03. It is from that elected body that the head of state is nominated and then elected. Raul Castro, Carlos Large, and Ricardo Alarcon and others were among the nominated last year. President Castro has been elected to that position since 1976.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/do/Dorticos.htmlDorticós Torrado, Osvaldo
1919–83, president of Cuba (1959–76). A prosperous lawyer, he participated in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement and was imprisoned (1958). He escaped and fled to Mexico, returning to Cuba after Castro’s triumph (1959). As minister of laws (1959) he helped to formulate Cuban policies. He was appointed president in 1959. Intelligent and competent, he wielded considerable influence. In 1976 the Cuban government was reorganized, and Castro assumed the title of president; Dorticós was named a member of the council of state.
The Cuban government was reorganized (approved by popular vote) into a variant parliamentary system in 1976.
You can read a short version of the Cuban system here,
http://members.attcanada.ca/~dchris/CubaFAQ.html#DemocracyOr a long and detailed version here,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0968508405/qid=1053879619/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-8821757-1670550?v=glance&s=books