ABSTRACT
The evaluate democracy in Cuba in a comparative fashion, assessing its electoral performance in light of two contemporaneous peers, Chile and Costa Rica. A set of future OECD democracies uninterruptedly holding elections that at least overlapped these periods of Cuban history will serve as additional reference points for comparative purposes. The last three columns consist of one each for Chile, Costa Rica, and Cuba. Taking the median as our measure, observe that on outcome, terms, reign, opposition winning vote, turnout, and support rate, Cuba registered values that were within the range marked out by its peers and the developed democracies. On September 28, 1932, Senate President Clement Vazquez Bello was cut down by machine-gun fire while riding in his limousine. A follow-up plot to dispatch most high officials of the government by exploding a bomb at the memorial service planned for the cemetery derailed when the explosives were discovered.
