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The sheer size of the country.
The country's ethnic demographics.
The country's severe socioeconomic inequalities.
The relatively closed and dysfunctional political system.
Anything else. (Please state).
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The flaw with that reasoning is that it assumes the Rousseauian dogma of human beings being innately "good" to be correct, when usually the opposite is the case, as Machiavelli liked to put. In other words, if there isn't a third party acting as overlord keeping order, people will behave in the sleaziest way possible at the first opportunity in order to get their way.
"My name is The Patriot, my fatherland is Santo Domingo, my condition is Citizen, my religion is the love of truth and justice, and my occupations are to boldly attack vice and loudly praise virtue".
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Yes I know it offends people here (understandably) when I try to point out the good side of Cuba, but Transparency International ranks it as less corrupt than most democracies in Latin America, Africa, Asia and even some in Europe. People I know who have been there say that, while poor, most people are remarkably trustworthy and straight-laced.
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Yes, I will be a bit hyperbolic and provokative and say that in a so-called "democratic" society with unregulated markets and political institutions, you just need 50+1% of the people voting to win, while an "authoritarian" society require a much higher % of mass adhesion to hold the power, which means it is more costly in terms of propaganda for an oligarchy to rule than in a democratic regime !
This is why oligarchs/mafia rule more in "pseudo"-democratic regimes than in real autocracies...
Italy under Mussolini eliminated the mafia, while in post-WW2, Italian mafia flourished again (thanks to the US help also...)
We do not drink Coca-Cola three hours before a match
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Dont know but its a good question to ask julian assange before the US tries to kill him for telling the truth
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