Billy Ram Balgobin posted:. The Cubans know this. Free elections in Cuba involving Fidel would resulted in so much intervention by the Americans that it would risk a major internal conflict.
Do you know that Burnham used the same excuse for rigging?
Dictators always justify their brutality.
Who is Castro to decide who the ordinary Cubans will vote for? If Castro was doing good than he would have won. The problem was that he knew full well that he wasn't, and that many think that he has destroyed the country.
In fact Maurice Bishop was planning to hold elections in Grenada, wanting to be known as a legitimate leader. Castro ordered goons within his party to kill him. Note that Bishop was killed by HIS fellow party members. NOT by the US forces which intervened as Grenada fell into a blood bath with Grenadian soldiers shooting their own people, including Bishop, in cold blood.
THAT is Fidel Castro. Had the PPP won he would have ordered Cheddi to eliminate his opposition, and Cheddi would have eagerly complied.
In fact when Bouterse saw what Castro did in Grenada he immediately ordered them out of Suriname, fearing a similar fate.