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Im a different poster than the last person and generally unfamiliar with the Cuban electoral structure, are they able to run non-communist/non-Marxist candidates? If they cannot legally do so they do not have free elections using the standard definition of "free elections".
Yes they are, even wiki would show you there's 28 unaffiliated members in Nation Assembly, and also you may read about how it look here - Cuba is way more democratic than literally every capitalist country.
Yes, you can, though they lose because the Cuban people ultimatley support their system.
"Free" elections in Cuba would just mean immediate US vassalage. Influencing elections in the Caribbean and Latin America is a practically a US hobby.
Right? It's easy to bloviate about "free, democratic elections" when you're the world's superpower. When you live NEXT to the world's superpower, there's no such thing.
Fantastically well said. Cuba's a very democratic country, moreso than the US, so when people accuse it of not being so that can only mean they wish to remove the safeguards preventing US recolonization.
That idiot literally thinks Castro is still alive and that Cuba has a "throne", don't act like westerners have any idea about the specifics of Cuban elections law when they're giving their ignorant opinions of it.