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Name 1A) What title does the leader of Cuba have? 1B) What took place for this person to become the leader? 1C) Was there competition in the election? 1D) How do you know? 1E) Which freedom is necessary for Competitive Elections? 1 chief of state: Pr esident Michel Mi guel Elias TEMER Lulia (sinc e 31 August 2016); Vice President (vacant); note - the pres ident is both c hief of state and head of gover nment head of government: President Michel Miguel Eli as TEMER Luli a (since 31 August 2016); Vi ce Presi dent (vacant) cabinet: Cabinet appoi nt ed by the president elections/appointments: president and vice pr esident dir ectly el ected on t he s ame ballot by absolute majority popular vot e i n 2 r ounds if needed for a single 4-year term (eli gibl e f or a second term); el ection last hel d on 5 October 2014 wit h runoff on 26 October 2014 (next t o be hel d October 2018) election results: Dilma ROUSSEFF r eel ected pr esident i n a r unoff electi on; percent of vote - Dilma ROUSSEFF (PT) 51. 6%, Aecio NEVES (PSDB) 48.4% 2 The government continues to balance the need for loosening its socialist economic system against a desire for firm political control. In April 2011, the government held the first Cuban Communist Party Congress in almost 13 years, during which leaders approved modest reforms. 2A) Who is the doing something (or making decisions) in the Cuban economy? The Cuban regime has updated its economic model to include permitting the private ownership and sale of real estate and new vehicles, allowing private farmers to sell agricultural goods directly to hotels, allowing the creation of non-agricultural cooperatives to increase productivit y 2B) Circle all the time words like approve, permitted, control and government show up. Since late 2000, Venezuela has provided petroleum products to Cuba on preferential terms, supplying nearly 100,000 barrels per day. Cuba has been paying for the oil, in part, with the services of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, including some 30,000 medical professionals 2C) How did Cuba pay for the oil from Venezuela? 2D) Do you think these people had a choice? 3A) What about Cuba’s location determines how people have tried to flee? What dangers would they face? 3B) What are Cubans fleeing from in Cuba and trying to escape? 3 The number of Cubans trying to reach the United States in rafts and small boats has grown, possibly because of the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Coast Guard reports. With 121 people in boats stopped at sea and repatriated to Cuba last week, the Coast Guard estimates 4,308 Cubans have attempted to illegally migrate to the United States since October 1, 2014, according to a Coast Guard press release. Most of these attempts occurred in the Florida Straits on unseaworthy vessels. About 3,900 Cubans tried to reach the country by sea during the previous fiscal year -- October 1, 2013, to September 30, 2014, the Coast Guard said. The Cuban media are tightly controlled by the government and journalists must operate within the confines of laws against antigovernment propaganda and the insulting of officials which carry penalties of up to three years in prison. Private ownership of broadcast media is prohibited, and the government owns all mainstream media outlets. Cuba Literacy Rate _________________________________________________ Population ___________________________________________________ GDP ________________________________________________________ GDP/Capita __________________________________________________ Cars / 1,000 people ____________________________________________ What type of Government does Cuba have? _________________________________ Evidence ________________________________________________________ What type of economy ____________________________________________________ Evidence ________________________________________________________ Summary: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting detail 1 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting detail 2 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Supporting Detail 3 __________________________________________________________________________________________________