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Where did I mention Castro?

Please post the links to the posts where I call Castro a god? I have never said that, and I don't think that.

In addition to supporting the end to the embargo and sanctions on Cuba and Americans, my consistant position has been that focusing on Castro is ignoring the Cuban people. It is the design of the US gov/media and the Miamicuban exiles.

Yes, democracy is more important than government stats, except that that stats are not the Cuban government's. They are the stats of the UN, World B, Doctors w/o Borders, UNESCO etc. (ex: http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/learn.htm )

After years of US government brainwashing combined with American information apathy mixed with being banned by the US government from freely traveling to Cuba, understandably, most Americans have no idea about the real Cuba now - Cuba has an elected government via a multiparty parliamentary system that the Cuban people overwhelmingly support.

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=DCForumID70


http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/democracy.htm

This 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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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#Democracy

Or 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



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Better yet, we should cast off the shackles that our government places on our freedoms that prevent us Americans from freely seeing Cuba for ourselves so we can better understand the place.