Question

How might the form of government affect the role of the citizen in Cuba?
A) Cuba has a dictatorship, which limits the voting rights of the citizens. B) Cuba has a dictatorship, which allows for greater voting rights of the citizens. C) Cuba has a federal-republican system, which limits the voting rights of the citizens. D) Cuba has a federal-republican system, which allows for greater voting rights of the citizens.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Elections in Cuba involve nomination of municipal candidates by voters in open ballot nomination assemblies, nomination of provincial and national candidates by candidacy commissions, voting by secret ballot, and recall elections.[1][2] Under the national constitution, Cuba is a socialist democracy, with the Communist Party of Cuba as the "leading force of society and of the state", although elections are nominally non-partisan.

The nature of political participation in Cuba has fostered discussion among political writers and philosophers. Since Cuba became a one-party republic, the country's political system has been condemned by opposition groups, human rights groups, and foreign Western governments as undemocratic, a dictatorship or an authoritarian or totalitarian state, with all public elections considered to be show elections. Although the media is operated under supervision by the Party's Department of Revolutionary Orientation, which "develops and coordinates propaganda strategies",[3] the Cuban government contends that the system is democratic. Some observers[who?] say the same, describing it as a "grassroots", a "centralized", or a "revolutionary democracy";[4] rather than a liberal democracy.

Fidel Castro was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) from 1961 until 2011, and was in power first as Prime Minister and then as President, from 1959 until 2008. Castro's brother Raúl Castro was designated Fidel's successor at the 5th Communist Party congress in October 1997.[5] Fidel Castro officially retired on 19 April 2011, leaving his brother as the sole candidate for First Secretary.[6]

Answer 2

a) Cuba has a dictatorship, which limits the voting rights of the citizens

Explanation:

• It was the start of the fifty seven years of rule. As Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro administered widespread reforms, comprising modernising the nation’s electrical grid, providing free healthcare and education, and generating employment as Cuba had become a communist state.
• However these changes had come at an devastating price. Private business had become a thing of the past. Free press, Public protest, and political opposition were violently suppressed. And free elections had become a distant memory.