Re: Cuba Elections

[Bruce McQuain <mcquain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:04 PM 12/1/95 -0600, you wrote:
>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?

  Lighten up my friend...it was a joke.  Notice the ";)"...it's there for a
reason.

  McQ



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