Marxism lite: Cuba’s new constitution

Cuba’s 86.85% yes vote for its new constitution falls a little short of those 99.99% election endorsements rigged up by Fidel Castro and his friends in the old Soviet Union.

In this week’s referendum, there were at least some voters — 700,000 of them — who felt sufficiently free to mark the no box or spoil their ballot papers. That’s quite an achievement for a plebiscite in which only the government was permitted to campaign.