Spectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up196arrow-down1imageZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlSpectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38725765 https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agohttps://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
minus-square∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWow, great interview. It mirrors quite a bit of what I read about Soviet and GDR prisons
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-21 month agopretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSadly that information is outdated as of 2024. It looks like Cuba’s incarceration rate spiked hard and the USA’'s came down a bit. When you include the US parole system, though…
Or in prison.
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
Wow, great interview.
It mirrors quite a bit of what I read about Soviet and GDR prisons
pretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.Sadly that information is outdated as of 2024. It looks like Cuba’s incarceration rate spiked hard and the USA’'s came down a bit.
When you include the US parole system, though…