HAVANA, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Nearly three-quarters of Cubans said they would
like to vote for a successor to ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, USA
Today reported, citing a recent poll.
Of the 600 Cubans polled, 74 percent on those asked on the communist
island said they wanted to vote for a new leader to replace Castro, said
the International Republican Institute, which conducted the poll without
telling those Cubans asked that their answers were being tabulated.
"It's kind of like a nose under the tent of the real Cuba," James
Roberts, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who also served in
the State Department focusing on Latin America, told USA Today.
"It gives what your intuition would tell you that people must be
thinking in their heart of hearts, that this 50-year regime of tyranny
is not something people would like to live under for another 50 years."
The poll was conducted in 14 of Cuba's 15 provinces.
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