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| Cubans back new constitution affirming role of socialism |
| 2019-02-26 |
| [PULSE.NG] Some 6.8 million people, or more than 86 percent of voters, supported the changes in Sunday's referendum, while only 766,400, or nine percent, voted against. A total of 7.8 million people took part in the vote, with just over four percent of ballots blank or invalid. "The constitution has been ratified by the majority of citizens," electoral commission president Alina Balseiro told a news conference. "Cubans have said #YesForCuba and #YesForTheRevolution," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted. "It's an overwhelming response to the unbelievers who from Washington talked about the end of #Socialism, with policies that failed for more than 60 years. "#Cuba keeps going, always free, revolutionary and socialist." US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... had said earlier this month that the leftist ideology is "dying." But academic and former diplomat Carlos Alzugaray had told AFP that Trump's words would serve only to galvanize the "yes" vote as people "defend their independence against the US threat." The constitutional reforms ratify socialism's "irrevocable" role as the national ideology and replaces the 1976 constitution, a move criticized by the Catholic and evangelical churches. It also recognized the Communist Party as the "superior ruling political force in society and the State," and its position as the nation's only party. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Now. now. There's a place where AOC and the other commies can 'migrate' to if they love that way of government and social order. PS Don't tell me to 'migrate' because there is no where else left for those of our proclivity (life, liberty and |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-26 16:48 |
| #3 Some 6.8 million people, or more than 86 percent of voters, supported the changes in Sunday's referendum, while only 766,400, or nine percent, voted against. They had a choice? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-26 10:59 |
| #2 Lofty words and a 100,000,000 corpses. It's simply marvelous. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-02-26 10:07 |
| #1 The USSR had a constitution as well, full of lofty words it was, they also had Lubyanka and the Gulags as well... |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-02-26 09:12 |