Spectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up194arrow-down1imageZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlSpectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38725765 https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoYou need to read about Cuban democracy. People spend way more of their daily lives in democratic formations, driving the direction of their neighborhoods, villages, cities, and workplaces than an American could even dream of.
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agohttps://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
minus-square∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWow, great interview. It mirrors quite a bit of what I read about Soviet and GDR prisons
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 months agopretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoSadly that information is outdated as of 2024. It looks like Cuba’s incarceration rate spiked hard and the USA’'s came down a bit. When you include the US parole system, though…
You need to read about Cuban democracy. People spend way more of their daily lives in democratic formations, driving the direction of their neighborhoods, villages, cities, and workplaces than an American could even dream of.
Or in prison.
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
Wow, great interview.
It mirrors quite a bit of what I read about Soviet and GDR prisons
pretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.Sadly that information is outdated as of 2024. It looks like Cuba’s incarceration rate spiked hard and the USA’'s came down a bit.
When you include the US parole system, though…