I'm John Bachelors, a new world report with Professor Evangelis of the U.S. Army War

College, Cuba, and unusual headline, Reuters.

Cubans vote this week for 470 lawmakers.

Professor I highlight this because Cuba are now and again, enters into the news as a

dictatorship, an authoritarian dictatorship where democracy is mocked.

And yet it would appear there is a process in place.

And Cuba must be regarded as an authority, a power in the Americas because of its close

links to outside world powers.

That would be Russia in conflict in Europe.

That would be China through Russia's offices.

That certainly would be Iran and the Hezbollah and other linking units that link it to

Caracas and Managua.

So this idea of Cuba having a vote.

How to regard this?

Is this something that is monitored?

Is this something that is approved of?

Is this where there is only one candidate per representative?

I'm unfamiliar with their thinking.

Well, John, you clearly as happened during the Soviet Union with the Soviet Union, but

it satellites in Eastern Europe.

The formal act of having a electoral process gives the appearance of legitimization, the

argument or the sense of democracy.

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