Re: Cuba Elections

[Chegitz Guevara <mluziett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Bruce McQuain wrote:

> Michael Principe wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >When I was in Cuba this past summer, I had a Cuban tell me that it would
> >have simply been unthinkable to vote "no".  That, he said, would have
> >been a disaster for the whole system .  The vote in many ways seems to
> >have been a statement by Cubans of solidarity with each other and with
> >the government.
>
>   One could also wonder if a collective form of the "Stockholm Syndrome"
> wasn't in evidence here too. ;)
>
>   McQ

The Cuban people are hardly so terrorized that they'd be victems of the
Stockholm Syndrome. You haven't seen it in any other country, like in
Kampuchia/Cambodia, so why Cuba?

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett

I'm not anti-society, society's anti-me
I'm not anti-religion, religion's anti-me
I'm not anti-tradition, tradition's anti-me
I'm not anti-anything, I just want to be free.

Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies



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