Cubans Get Good Friday off
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
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Via the BBC: Communist Cuba marks Good Friday with public holiday
Communist Cuba is marking Easter with a public holiday on Good Friday, for the first time in decades.
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Religious holidays in Cuba were cancelled after the 1959 revolution, and fewer than 10% of Cubans are practising Catholics.
Nonetheless, the Church is the most influential organisation outside the Communist government.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I think it’s odd that that Wall Street takes the day off.
Lazy commies using any excuse to loaf around even if they don’t believe it