SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April 14 (Santiago Santana, APLO) - Students between the ages of 12 and 14 are drumming up support for the upcoming electoral campaign on behalf of the Popular Power, the Cuban legislature, in Sagua de Tánamo, Holguín province, eastern Cuba.
On Tuesday, April 11, the students went from house to house reminding citizens that next Sunday, April 23, elections to the Popular Power will be held and that all good citizens should rise early and vote, according to the script they were given to recite.
A group of these students knocked at the door of Alfredo Álvarez Leyva, an ex-political prisoner. He told them that he was not going to vote until he could do so in truly free elections, in which multiple political parties could participate.
The dissident also explained: "I am a non-violent opponent of the government of Fidel Castro, among other reasons, because he only allows one party, his." Later the students asked their teacher what a non-violent opponent to the government is. The teacher answered: "If that person
doesn't want to vote, let him. That's his right." There was no explanation of what an opponent may be.
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