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  The GULLY | Americas | Cuba Now: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Political detainees in Cuba "were sometimes subjected to psychological pressure, such as solitary confinement, long, intense interrogations, threats and insults," Amnesty International reported in 1999.
Cuba was by far Latin America's leader in slashing under-five mortality, and a close second in life expectancy and literacy.
Cuba is one of the five top-scoring developing countries in the U.N. Human Poverty Index (HPI), which measures a long and healthy life, knowledge, economic provisioning and social inclusion.
www.thegully.com /essays/cuba/000305cubahoy.html   (1856 words)

  
 List of political parties in Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political parties in Cuba lists political parties in this country.
This means that only one political party, the Communist Party of Cuba is legally or de facto allowed to hold effective power.
List of political parties to browse parties by country
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Cuba   (230 words)

  
 Populist Party - Cuba Under Castro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For him and Cuba it marked the successful culmination of his quest to do so that began with his unsuccessful attack on the Moncada army post in Santiago de Cuba in July, 1953 for which he stood trial and was sentenced in October that year to serve 15 years in the Isle of Pines penitentiary.
While other political parties and opposition groups exist in the country, their activities are minimal and the state views them as mostly illegal.
Cuba has also virtually eliminated illiteracy (as has Venezuela with the help of thousands of Cuban teachers sent to the country) while in the US the Department of Education cites a functional illiteracy rate of 20% of the population.
www.populistamerica.com /cuba_under_castro   (6580 words)

  
 List of political parties in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second section is called “Current third parties” and it consists of those parties that have achieved (or, in the lead-up to an election, are reasonably expected to achieve) ballot status for their respective candidates for President of the United States in states with enough electoral votes to have a theoretical chance of winning.
Each of these non-major parties had ballot status for its presidential candidate in states with enough electoral votes to have had a theoretical chance of winning the 2004 presidential election.
List of state Democratic Parties in the U.S. List of state Republican Parties in the U.S. List of state Constitution Parties in the U.S. List of state Green Parties in the U.S. List of state Libertarian Parties in the U.S. Index of political parties to browse parties by name
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States   (823 words)

  
 Emerson (MO08) - Press Release - Freedom in America's Backyard
At the height of the Cold War, Cuba was an adversary and an extension of the iron fist of Communism to the Western Hemisphere.
Spain is crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba with great success B Spanish interests have renovated Cuba's airport and now dominate the air service market to Havana.
Benefits exist for both parties from trade with Cuba - but trade is not the ultimate goal of the best policy with that nation.
www.house.gov /list/hearing/mo08_emerson/col_041127.html   (704 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Cuba
It is unclear when the first Jews arrived in Cuba, some arrived after the expulsion from Spain in 1492.
Israel considered Cuba to be one of its worst enemies in the United Nations.
Despite anti-Israel sentiment that existed in Cuba, the only time blatant anti-Semitic attacks occurred in all of Cuban history was during the Gulf War.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Cuba.html   (2283 words)

  
 Alternative Political Parties in the U. S.
The following is a list and brief overview of over 25 alternative political parties that may reflect your personal values, although a number of the platforms range from the ridiculous to the sublime.
The Labor Party is national in scope and includes state parties, chapters and local organizing committees which organize members and promote the activities and policies of the Labor Party in its jurisdiction, and elect delegates to Labor Party conventions.
A primary role of the political organization is to challenge the political apparatus of the capitalist class and its monopoly of state power, while promoting worker class consciousness and emphasizing the need for organizing working-class strength on the economic field.
www.apatheticvoter.com /PoliticalParties.htm   (4616 words)

  
 Freedom Socialist Newspaper ---CUBA: Danger from el norte , but hope to the south
Cuba provides automatic voting rights at age 16, allows for recall of representatives, and is free of money influence, unlike in the U.S. where the dollar dictates who wins.
A weakness of Cuba is that it has only one legal political party, the Communist Party of Cuba, and Castro has served as leader for 47 years.
What this means for Cuba is a foreign policy that boldly assists and urges this course among nations like Bolivia and Venezuela, who are already taking on the U.S. In the past, Cuba's leadership has urged revolutionary leaders and movements in Latin America to go slowly, in the hope of avoiding U.S. wrath.
www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol27no5/Cuba.html   (1627 words)

  
 USD: Poli Sci/IR: Political Science Major
The politics of ocean regulation are examined with particular attention to law of the sea negotiations.
This course examines the development of the political institutions and culture of Russia since the collapse of Communism, with a focus on the role of the Presidency, the Parliament, political parties, and the public in shaping the life of the Russian Federation.
The primary focus is on the breakdown of the dominant party system in the late twentieth century and the subsequent recalibration of executive-legislative relations, decentralization of power and emergence of democratic political culture and competition.
www.sandiego.edu /polisci/poliscimajor.php   (3388 words)

  
 U.S. Dept. of State FOIA - Church Report (Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973)
The groundwork for the election was laid early in 1961 by establishing operational relationships with key political parties and by creating propaganda and organizational mechanisms capable of influencing key sectors of the population.
Support was given to "anti-communist" members of the Radical Party in their efforts to achieve positions of influence in the party hierarchy, and to prevent the party from throwing its support behind Allende.
Money provided to political parties not only supported opposition candidates in the various elections, but enabled the parties to maintain an anti-government campaign throughout the Allende years, urging citizens to demonstrate their opposition in a variety of ways.
foia.state.gov /Reports/ChurchReport.asp   (14136 words)

  
 The Democracy Project . Lesson Plans - Donkeys, Elephants, and Voters | PBS KIDS GO!
Also, the concept of political action, political parties and their role in the democratic process is hard to teach in a conventional way.
These hands-on activities are designed to help students journey through politics from its "grass roots" to a national convention through the creation of a new political party and the development of the convention's national platform.
The political parties encourage voters to support their candidates through many methods such as sponsoring debates, advertising, fundraising, letter or e-mail writing campaigns, slogans, making speeches and hosting big meetings called conventions.
pbskids.org /democracy/educators/donkeys.html   (1239 words)

  
 Cubasource
Description: A project calling for political change in Cuba, based on the stipulation in the Cuban constitution that a minimum of 10,000 people are needed to petition the government to change its laws.
Description: The report notices a slight decline in the number of political prisoners and a change in the form of political repression during the first six month of 2006, compared with 2005.
Description: Report issued by the CCDHRN that includes a list of 306 individuals who have been sentenced for political reasons or are waiting for due process.
www.cubasource.org /listings/120_e.asp   (346 words)

  
 ZNet |Cuba | Discussion on the Cuban Five
But what the studies shows, consistently, is that both political parties and the media are far to the right of the public on issue after issue, on a host of issues.
Cuba was put in to fill that gap perhaps in honor of the fact that the terrorist war against Cuba had just peaked in the preceding years.
So Cuba is put on the list to replace Iraq so that Iraq can get US aid, including military aid, which it then had then used to carry out massive atrocities not just in 1982 but in subsequent years.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9803   (7050 words)

  
 CUBA-L Genealogy Discussion List
Political propaganda, and discussions of present-day social and political conditions in Cuba, however, are prohibited.
All messages sent to the list address are immediately distributed to the list and cannot be retracted.
The list administrator is expected to take appropriate action for any violation of the list rules, to maintain the list discussions within the appropriate subject matter of the list and to solve any problems.
www.cubagenweb.org /cuba-l.htm   (2389 words)

  
 Political Affairs Magazine - From Cuba to Queens: Who needs a revolution more?
Reading about the imaginative plans Washington's expatriate plotters have for a post-Castro Cuba, the thing that always sticks out is their lack of any grounding in reality.
But returning to the peaceful transition, the Directorate's activities in Cuba are two-pronged: to train dissidents to build an opposition movement and to garner international support for this movement.
Washington's plans for Cuba have been a total failure, but not for a lack of resources or funding, for which Bush requested $80 million this year.
www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/4034/1/207   (686 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
 Political parties, and political groups worldwide
List of political and non-profit organisations on the Internet, maintained by UC-Berkeley's Centre for Community Economic Research
Third Parties '96 is a movement to build a new mainstream political party
CANF - the Cuban American National Foundation is dedicated to the establishment of freedom and democracy in Cuba.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /parties.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Progressive Cuba-Bashing
is of course free to disapprove of the trials of political
In fact the hijackers were not political people.
Cubans is analogous to that of the pro-Israel lobby in the
www.marxmail.org /Cuba_Levins.htm   (3113 words)

  
 Political Parties
Conservative Party or PSC [Ciro RAMIREZ Anzon]; Liberal Party or PL [Luis Guillermo VELEZ]; Patriotic Union or UP is a legal political party formed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC and Colombian Communist Party or PCC [Jaime CAICEDO]; 19 of April Movement or M-19 [Antonio NAVARRO Wolff]
Fiji Labor Party or FLP [Mahendra CHAUDHRY]; Fijian Nationalist Federation Party or NFP [Singh RAKKA]; Fijian Political Party or SVT (primarily Fijian) [Maj. Gen.
political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by religious, clan, and economic considerations
countryprofile.tripod.com /parties.html   (2727 words)

  
 Political Resources on the Net - Cuba 1:3
Government and Politics of Cuba by Armando F. Mastrapa
Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) Communist Party of Cuba
Cuba Libre The postcard to Fidel Castro, asking for the release of Francisco Chaviano and other political prisoners in Cuba
www.politicalresources.net /cuba.htm   (112 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Cuba
Embajada de Cuba en Roma, Italia [Embassy of Cuba in Rome, Italy]
Misión Permanente de Cuba ante las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra [Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in Geneva]
Misión Permanente de Cuba ante las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York [Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations in New York]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/cu.html   (331 words)

  
 American Reform Party ENDORSEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE - List of Questions
Do you believe that all third party candidates with a mathematical possibility of winning an election should be included in public debates?
or any other political party to gain the endorsement of the ARP (but it wouldn't hurt).
You just have to be the kind of person who favors a big piece of the American Reform Party Platform.
www.americanreform.org /arp-endorsement/list-questions.html   (796 words)

  
 SNP / Treaty / Home - International Campaign to Ban Landmines
This is the list of the 40 countries that have not signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty as of 21 Nov 06.
The 3 that have signed the treaty but not ratified are show in bold.
These signatory states have made a political commitment to joining the treaty, and they have a legal obligation not to take actions that would violate the treaty.
www.icbl.org /treaty/snp   (92 words)

  
 Political parties - History books, find the lowest prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Political parties - History books, find the lowest prices
The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Period : Creating a Conformed Citizenry
Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic : Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821
www.allbookstores.com /Political_Parties-History_p23sd.html   (209 words)

  
 Michelle Malkin
A CNN commentator says President Ford will be buried at the Ford library and museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan after funeral/memorial services in California, D.C., and lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
For some real market research, Target ought to go to Miami, a shopper haven that is a place of exile for the 20% of Cubans who fled for their lives from Guevara's communist Cuba.
He was a psychopath with a central role in Cuba's 1961 mass executions in the "year of the wall." Guevara signed at least 600 death warrants and executed children against firing squad walls; he was responsible for at least 2,000 deaths.
michellemalkin.com   (7515 words)

  
 Politically-oriented Net Sites
Konserwatiewe Party / Conservative Party - South Africa
Labour Party - UK Left Socialist Party of Denmark
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol)
www.anc.org.za /lists/polsites.html   (195 words)

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