Note to AP: Cuba is a Totalitarian Dictatorship

After 52 years of a brutal totalitarian dictatorship, the AP's Havana bureau still tries to give credence to the Castro regime's "electoral" charade:

"There are no flashy television ads or campaign signs spiked into front yards. And candidates definitely don't tour the island shaking hands and kissing babies [...].

A long, complicated and truly unique electoral process is under way on this communist-run island, with more than 8 million Cubans going to the polls this weekend for municipal elections. The process culminates in February, when national assembly legislators vote on who will occupy the presidency, a post held by Raul Castro since 2008."

Note to AP:

to·tal·i·tar·i·an  (t-tl-târ-n)

adj. Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.

n. A practitioner or supporter of such a government.

That's the Castro dictatorship.

You'd think Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq's former information minister (known as "Comical Ali) was the AP's new Havana correspondent.