Our elections are the antithesis of those held in the United States, not on Sundays but on the first Tuesday of November. Being very rich or having the support of lot of money is what matters the most there. Huge amounts are later on invested in publicity, specialized in brain washing and the creation of conditioned reflexes.
With honorable exceptions, no one can hope to be appointed to an important post without being backed by millions of dollars.
Being elected President in the US requires hundreds of millions, which come from the coffers of big monopolies. Elections can be won by a candidate earning a minority of votes.
Less and less citizens are going to the ballots; there are many who would rather go to work or spend their time doing anything else. There is fraud, tricks, discrimination against ethnic minorities and even violence.
Having more than 90 per cent of all citizens voting in the elections and school children guarding the ballots is an unheard of experience; it’s hard to believe that this occurs in one of the “dark corners of this world”, a harassed and blockaded country named Cuba. That is how we exercise the vigorous muscles of our political awareness.
Fidel Castro Ruz
October 19, 2007
6:12 p.m.
Radical Notes 
Excellent. I assume then that you are free to depose the dictator in your elections? Naturally, opposition parties are welcome in such an idealistic setting.
deposing dictators: good idea. We have something in our constitution called impeachment, but it is meaningless and we are therefore powerless to depose our dictators, and there have been many.
Opposition parties? might be a good idea. We should try it sometime in the US.
rather than having one big right-wing party with two wings, both grovelling in the dirt to serve the corporate interests.
I would like to see a continuation of the topic