Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Winnipeg, March 31, 2018: On March 11, 2018, over 7 million Cubans went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly of People's Power. The election of the National Assembly is one step in the process which will culminate in mid-April with the vote by the National Assembly for the country’s new State Council, and soon after, they will elect Cuba’s new President. The Cuban political system is not familiar to Canadians. Two Cuban government representatives visited Winnipeg to discuss Cuba's electoral system and other issues of interest.
JUAN CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ is a Member of Cuba’s National Assembly of People's Power, a Historian of the City of Pinar del Rio and Professor at the Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca University. His translator is YAMIL MARTÍNEZ MARRERO, Director of the Canada Desk of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.
The forum was sponsored by the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee.
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Paul S. Graham
paulsgraham.ca
Winnipeg, March 31, 2018: On March 11, 2018, over 7 million Cubans went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly of People's Power. The election of the National Assembly is one step in the process which will culminate in mid-April with the vote by the National Assembly for the country’s new State Council, and soon after, they will elect Cuba’s new President. The Cuban political system is not familiar to Canadians. Two Cuban government representatives visited Winnipeg to discuss Cuba's electoral system and other issues of interest.
JUAN CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ is a Member of Cuba’s National Assembly of People's Power, a Historian of the City of Pinar del Rio and Professor at the Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca University. His translator is YAMIL MARTÍNEZ MARRERO, Director of the Canada Desk of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.
The forum was sponsored by the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee.
Video Production
Paul S. Graham
paulsgraham.ca
