In the rest of the world, April 23 was Easter Sunday, but in Cuba, it was election day. The true believers in every local district in the land were electing representatives to serve on their local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution. Candidate photographs and biographies had been posted on the doors of public buildings throughout the land, but it was impossible for an outsider -- particularly one with only very limited competence in Spanish -- to know how competitive the election really was. "All the candidates are the same," a skeptic assured me. "It doesn't make any difference who wins."