Cuban elections: they're free!
From the people who brought you "free" health care: "free" elections, where you are "free" to vote for the candidates assigned to you!
HAVANA (Reuters) - There are no campaigns or TV ads and only one party gets to field candidates in Sunday's local elections in communist Cuba, the first without ailing Fidel Castro in charge.
And what does this kind of government bring you in addition to "free" health care? Why, posh living conditions!
Sitting outside the Palace cinema, where the last picture show was in the mid-1960s and a homeless family now lives with pig and chickens, Revilla points at a crippled building across the street, promising "We're going to build apartments there."
Wow! And where do the people who provide Cuba's "free" health care live? In condemned buildings!
The former Romeo and Julieta cigar factory, built in 1905, was declared too dangerous to live in two decades ago, but 31 families are still there because authorities have nowhere else to house them. Another 51 families were finally evacuated last month when a floor caved in.
Angry occupants said Sunday's elections were pointless.
"I won't vote for anyone. What for? Our delegate is useless. Nobody has helped us. Look at where I live," said Ivon Santana, 29, a hospital auxiliary.
They even have campaign finance reform:
Campaign publicity is limited to the candidate's photograph and CV stuck to shop windows.
Wow, what a paradise!
So...when can Michael Moore move?
HAVANA (Reuters) - There are no campaigns or TV ads and only one party gets to field candidates in Sunday's local elections in communist Cuba, the first without ailing Fidel Castro in charge.
And what does this kind of government bring you in addition to "free" health care? Why, posh living conditions!
Sitting outside the Palace cinema, where the last picture show was in the mid-1960s and a homeless family now lives with pig and chickens, Revilla points at a crippled building across the street, promising "We're going to build apartments there."
Wow! And where do the people who provide Cuba's "free" health care live? In condemned buildings!
The former Romeo and Julieta cigar factory, built in 1905, was declared too dangerous to live in two decades ago, but 31 families are still there because authorities have nowhere else to house them. Another 51 families were finally evacuated last month when a floor caved in.
Angry occupants said Sunday's elections were pointless.
"I won't vote for anyone. What for? Our delegate is useless. Nobody has helped us. Look at where I live," said Ivon Santana, 29, a hospital auxiliary.
They even have campaign finance reform:
Campaign publicity is limited to the candidate's photograph and CV stuck to shop windows.
Wow, what a paradise!
So...when can Michael Moore move?