Castro lampoons U.S. democracy

[Ghost in the Machine]

Castro lampoons U.S. democracy

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro lampooned U.S. elections Saturday as corrupted by corporate money aimed at "brainwashing" the few Americans who still bother to go to the polls.
The Cuban leader's comments came a day before the communist-run island holds municipal elections featuring 37,258 candidates vying for 15,236 seats on local assemblies.

Sunday begins a process that culminates with parliamentary elections next spring. Lawmakers could then decide to officially replace the ailing 81-year-old Castro with his younger brother Raul atop the island's supreme governing body, the Council of State.

Fidel Castro, whose name will not be on any ballot Sunday, trumpeted his country's complicated, multitiered election cycle as "the antithesis of those held in the United States."

"Being very rich or having the support of lot of money is what matters the most there," he wrote in a brief essay Saturday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. The money is spent on "brainwashing and the creation of conditioned reflexes," he added.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-20-castro_N.htm?csp=34

[killbotfactory]

1. Here's a link to the actual article.

http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2007/octubre/sabado20/ingles.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well this is embarrasing... but he put his finger on the problems

In order to form a more perfect merger, it seems...

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. kick