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It's a quote from that article I posted.
I read it and it's a good summary I'm just trying to wrap my head around it, and reconcile it with the criticism I've heard before about Cuban elections being a sham, such as in that linked article or on Wikipedia.
Are these the same "opposition groups" the U.S. trained to conduct terrorist attacks in Cuba? I'm skeptical of what they might have to say, especially when we don't even have a name of the group or some sort of Cuban law we can point to.
When the U.S. designates a country a state enemy, you see all sorts of stuff made up about it, along with all sorts of muddled half-truths, exaggerations, and misleading spins. You just saw an example of this -- the half (at best) truth that Cuban elections are not contested. You can't take this sort of "Bad Country" mythos at face value.
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