Geopolitically Toothless Presidente Miguel Diaz-Canel, of the island prison of Cuba, Sunday told the world how his predicted victory in a constitutional referendum (given it’s a socialist nation, he was pretty assured of victory, as the alternative is safeguarded against by Kalishnikovs) somehow proved “an imperialist threat” was facing the globe’s best home to spare parts for a ’54 Packard. He also tried to morph the Cuban one-party state election into a win for his floundering pals in Venezuela.
Like Maduro doesn’t have enough problems.
Our little amigo Miguel continued, “People are waking up when they see these nefarious practices,” meaning the alleged imperialism but sounding like a Scooby-Doo villain with a speech impediment. Miguel said this more in a snit than in warning, as the Obama-era cozying up to Cuba play has been reversed by an American president who, well, actually works for America.
Not to be completely put out to overt pasture, Cuban Communist Party chief and thus actual honcho Raul Castro himself went out to vote yesterday surrounded by gleeful brainwashed schoolchildren in the Dear Leader Bestows His Soulful Beneficence Upon Revolutionary Urchins motif so beloved by socialist utopias across the planet. The children’s chaperone, the gentle and responsible Captain Antonio Montana of the Cuban National Babysitting Service, was unavailable for comment.
White House National Security Advisor John Bolton correctly derided the fake polling day as, “another ploy of the Cuban regime to cover up its repression and tyranny.”
So what will this election mean to the average Cuban? Mostly zip.
While it might allow for a bit more economic liberalization it will, as always, cement the Communists as the only party allowed by law to take part in the political process.
Funny thing though, as people get more economic power they start to crave more political power, as the greater leisure of relative affluence (in this case relative to, say, Haiti) gives them time to think.
Not good news for a dictatorship that knows its young people realize that a modicum of political freedom could entice the Americans back and with us a return to the prosperity of a time before the Castro brothers got their dirty Bolshie mitts on the currently hapless island.
