Ten truths about Cuba's general elections

Ten truths about Cuba's general elections.

Although the media spends a lot of time portraying Cuba as a “dictatorship”, it has barely covered the fact that Cubans have once again begun a process of electing officials, starting from the local and going all the way up to the national parliament.

Already, 78% of the population has participated in the process of selecting candidates for local government elections scheduled for November 26. A second round is scheduled for December 5 [2017] in cases where no candidate reaches 50%.

More than 27,000 candidates (from an initial list of 60,800 nominees) will contest for more than 12,000 seats spread out across 168 municipal assemblies. Sixty-five per cent of candidates are not sitting incumbents and 35% are women.

The second round of the process, to elect representatives to regional parliaments and the National Assembly, is scheduled for early next year [2018]. President Raul Castro has already announced he will step down as the head of state following the election of the next National Assembly.

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A dictatorship is any political entity in which the Western elites do not get their own way:

• Iran is a dictatorship because the Iranian people think for themselves.
• Chine is currently not a dictatorship because Western companies are making lots of money.
• Russia is a dictatorship because the Russian elite have their own agenda.
• Venezuela is a dictatorship because the people are putting their needs first.
• Saudi Arabia is not a dictatorship because they sell cheap oil and buy expensive arms from the West.

When the Western media talk about democracy, they mean the multi-billion dollar political campaigns in which very rich people run for office. Democracy is perverted into a scam in which the rich get richer, and the poor get ripped off.

This was why the Bernie Sanders campaign so frightened the elite: