Democracy in Cuba

[ngant17]

excerpts from my recent updated webpage:

"With the recent and steady downhill decline of our democratic process in the US, facilitated by the new and ‘improved’ electronic machines which appear likely to facilitate the manipulation of votes for fraudulent purposes by the Repugs, not only in Ohio and Florida but in many other states, a lot of people are rightly demanding more accountability in the voting process.

But as we try to make this whole thing work again , the people who have engineered the fraud, the Republican rightwing under Bush, they are not resting on their laurels of disgrace, they are harnessing the reigns of power for their own selfish gains, actively attempting to destroy foreign governments which they don’t fancy to, to make money off the subsequent ‘reconstruction’ and it appears that Iraq will not the be last.

It should come as no surprise that Cuba will once again be targeted. And the issue that is brought up, it is always about the so-called lack of democracy in Cuba. Even people who are championing the right of Cuba to exist as an independent nation, who don’t want Cuba to become a neo-colony of Bush’s imperio-fascist empire in the US, they are under the impression that there is not any kind of working democracy in Cuba. So once Fidel is gone, the whole process can begin.

It is very annoying to me to keep hearing the old slanders and distortions and outright lies against the Cuban political system. Before another slander is printed or announced in the press, I would ask that the uninformed reader make the effort to find the truth.

Canadian Arnold August traveled to Cuba and studied this question of democracy in Cuba in detail. His book, “Democracy In Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections” has been largely ignored if not banned from exposure by the corporate press, so really you have to do a little searching to find it..."

As an excellent RealAudio intro to his book, the following files were recorded off the soundtrack to his 2001 lecture at the Civic Media Center, Gainesville, Florida, which is shelved as a video there. Become a member and get access to their great radical/progressive library of audio/visual and text offerings. "

http://geocities.com/ngant17/Dem_in_Cuba1.ra
http://geocities.com/ngant17/Dem_in_Cuba2.ra
http://geocities.com/ngant17/Dem_in_Cuba3.ra
http://geocities.com/ngant17/Dem_in_Cuba4.ra
http://geocities.com/ngant17/Dem_in_Cuba5.ra

page for the RealAudio files:

http://geocities.com/ngant17/democry.htm
I'll plan to upload the rest of the lecture soon, so you should bookmark this page for further updates.