Monday, 20. January 2003

Topic: - on January 20, 2003 at 1:35:59 PM CET

Cubans Vote in One-Party General Elections

Cubans voted in one-party general elections on Sunday, with President Fidel Castro saying the election showed defiance against U.S. efforts to destroy the country's communist revolution.

Dissidents dismissed the poll as a fraud and urged people to boycott it, but authorities said that 7.4 million people, or 89.6 percent of registered voters, had cast their ballots by early.

¬> Reuters

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