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hack89

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5. You honestly believe that Cuban elections are truely multii party, don't you?

Reply to Mika (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 09:14 PM

Jan 2015

despite all the evidence to the contrary. You really think that a candidate can run on a platform opposing the current Cuban government and actually get on a ballot? You really think a candidate can run on an anti-socialism platform and get on a ballot?

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Socialism Will Continue in Cuba [View all] polly7 Jan 2015 OP

Wait a minute!!!! Mika Jan 2015 #1

Every single party authoritarian state has an elected legislature. hack89 Jan 2015 #3

Raul isn't running for a seat representing Municipio Segundo Frente, Santiago again. He's retiring. Mika Jan 2015 #4

You honestly believe that Cuban elections are truely multii party, don't you? hack89 Jan 2015 #5

I have never said that. The elections in Cuba are no-party elections. Mika Jan 2015 #7

The Cuban people do not have the power to make that kind of change hack89 Jan 2015 #8

Amazing how little right-wing US Americans know about other countries, isn't it? Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #9

Some imagined "win" in an internet debate seems more important than reality. Mika Jan 2015 #10

Cuba has been violating that statement for at least a decade Bacchus4.0 Jan 2015 #2

Socialism with heavy reliance on privatization of the economy FrodosPet Jan 2015 #6