viernes, 5 de agosto de 2011
Cuba's Zombie "Legislators"
August 5, 2011
By BBC's Havana correspondent Fernando Ravsberg (translated by Havana Times):
The Role of Cuba's Legislators
Foreign journalists were not invited to the last session of the Cuban parliament, which is held every six months. In any case, there was no surprising news. No one had the slightest doubt that these representatives would approve the reform guidelines issued by the Communist Party.
Nor did the deputies show themselves to be overly inquiring with respect to the presentations by the government officials. On television we didn't see anyone questioning the reports made by the various ministries, not even in those cases where there have been recurrent failures.
On the contrary, the delegates listened impassively to explanations about the objective and subjective causes for those failures and about how people are working earnestly to overcome those difficulties. However, while days, months and years pass by and ministers change, many of the problems remain, completely intact.
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