The number of people joining the Communist Party of Cuba is continuing to
grow. Statistics published in the daily edition of Granma, the official
organ of the Party, show that over thirty percent of Party members have
joined in the past five years. The number of Party members has increased
twenty-fold in the last thirty years.
Currently, the Cuban Communist Party has 780,000 members, a number
released during the series of meetings held to select the 1,500 delegates
who will participate in the Party's Fifth Congress in Havana from October
8-10.
TML Daily, 9/97
Shawgi Tell
Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo
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