Cuba Has Elected Two Black Women As Its New Vice Presidents

[Mike Rows His Boat]

Cuba Has Elected Two Black Women As Its New Vice Presidents

http://www.konbini.com/us/lifestyle/cuba-has-elected-two-black-women-as-its-new-vice-presidents-and-its-huge/

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Actually, according to the article, Cubans have elected 3 women VPs.

[Jake Stern]

1. Get back to me when Cubans have a REAL choice besides handpicked Communist Party candidates

Until then this still carries the stink of one party oligarchy.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

2. Actually, they were selected by the residents of their parliamentary districts.

But, I do understand that few Americans understand how the Cuban system works.

Buena noches

[EX500rider]

4. A one party state is hardly "democracy"

"Cuba is the only authoritarian regime in the Americas, according to the 2010 Democracy Index. Cuba's extensive censorship system was close to North Korea on the 2008 Press Freedom Index.[17] The media is operated under the Communist Party’s Department of Revolutionary Orientation, which "develops and coordinates propaganda strategies".[18] According to Maria Werlau, the extreme concentration of power to the Castro family seems comparable in modern times only to that of North Korea under the regimes of Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Cuba#Democracy

[Judi Lynn]

5. You can always count on heavy right-wing presence at Wikipedia to explain complex, mischaracterized

ways of life to you, apparently.

Everyone knew from the first the control the heavy-handed fascists have commanded over the countries trying to remain free of outside interference, abuse, exploitation, and constant covert warfare by propaganda, psyops, and darker means.

[EX500rider]

6. Are you saying the Castro's and the Communists party weren't in charge for the last 50+ years?

What was that other party that was in charge, i must have missed it?

[EX500rider]

7. i guess some reactionaries blog written in his basement would be better....lol

[Judi Lynn]

8. Probably not, of course. "Definition of reactionary"

Definition of reactionary
: relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction; especially : ultraconservative in politics
— reactionary noun
— reactionaryism play rē-ˈak-shə-ˌner-ē-ˌi-zəm noun

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionaries

[EX500rider]

9. And are the Democracy Index or the Press Freedom Index ultra right wing and incorrect?

[GatoGordo]

10. Perhaps a definition of democracy? I thought that Democrats embraced that sort of thing!

Definition of democracy

: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy

Cuba certainly has the oligarchy thing down pat.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

11. How long did you live in Cuba?

And, why didn't you vote when you lived there?

Curious.

But, if you haven't ever been there or lived there, surely, you're not so ignorant about this topic as to suggest that there are no elections in Cuba.
And, if you are ignorant on this topic, why are you making declarations about something you are ignorant of?

There's plenty of books and information about how Cuba's parliamentary system works.

[EX500rider]

12. The Soviet Union had sham elections too..

...and I didn't have to live there to know they were a one party State like Cuba.

Well at least Cuba ranked above N Korea...but that ain't saying much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Index_by_country_(2017)

[GatoGordo]

13. Never lived there... but you live there? AWESOME!

Tell us about your carefree life in Cuba. Regale us with stories about your open, transparent and democratic elections.

I am curious too! I much prefer to hear about your exploits first hand in Cuba than read about them from some book.

I personally have never been to Cuba. Though I have been privy to Cuba's version of "international statesmanship" in their various dealings with Latin American peoples. Cuban "doctors" (not in any sense more prepared than a new nurse graduate) have this awesome super-ability... they are able to impregnate vast numbers of poor young Latinas before skipping off to their next field assignment.

For the glory of the revolution, of course.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

14. I grew up in Cuba.

I kinda knew, based on your ignorant doggerel, that you know next to nothing about Cuba.
It sort of destroys any veracity of any of your baseless pronouncements.

Now, I know to ignore your comments regarding Cuba.

Buenas tardes

[GatoGordo]

15. Excellent teaching moment for you! Awesome learning moment for the rest of DU!

Since we know "nothing" of Cuba, you would be able to fill us in on the transparent, open and democratic elections that Cuba has?

Q. Clearly you hold Cuba and its revolution in high esteem... why did you leave, and more importantly, why do you live apart from the Marxist/Leninist Utopian paradise?

[Mike Rows His Boat]

16. Clearly.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Such a big step

Women have been at the forefront at every step for decades. Breaking frontiers not available in so many other countries.

Too bad uninformed people haven’t been able to grasp reality as it is, rather than what propagandists tell them.