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HAVANA, Cuba &mdash; As part of GlobalPost&#39;s project to interview 100 people in 20 locations around the world about the 2012 US election, we asked Cubans:</p>
<p>Who do you want to win the 2012 US election?</p>
<p>Will the election affect your country?</p>
<p>How has your view of the US changed since President Obama took office?</p>
<p>What should the next US president do?</p>
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<li><b>Country:</b> Cuba</li>
<li><b>Name:</b> Jaime Garcia</li>
<li><b>Occupation:</b> Security guard</li>
<li><b>Age:</b> 23</li>
<li><b>I would vote for:</b> Obama</li>
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<div class="bio-right"><strong>My vote:</strong> &quot;Obama. I still like him, even though he hasn&#39;t kept his word on some things. I guess he has a tough job.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>The election&#39;s impact: </strong>The next election will definitely have an impact &quot;because of the blockade [embargo].&quot;</p>
<p><strong><strong>My view:&nbsp;</strong></strong>It&#39;s gotten worse. &quot;I&#39;ve heard that lots of people there are out of work.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>Top priority:</strong> &quot;For Obama to lift the embargo.&quot;</div>
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<li><b>Country:</b> Cuba</li>
<li><b>Name:</b> Alexis Martinez</li>
<li><b>Occupation:</b> Taxi driver</li>
<li><b>Age:</b> 47</li>
<li><b>I would vote for:</b> Obama</li>
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<div class="bio-right"><strong>My vote:</strong> &quot;Obama. We have a saying here: better to go with the bad one you already know than the bad one you don&#39;t know yet. I&#39;ve been following Romney a bit. He reminds me of [George W] Bush.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>The election&#39;s impact: </strong>&quot;The election will definitely have an impact on us. We&#39;re still hoping for more from Obama.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>My view:</strong> &quot;I still see the US as a great country. It&#39;s had it&#39;s ups and downs over the years, but right now it&#39;s down.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>Top priority:</strong> &quot;He should sit down at the table with Cuba and figure out a way to overcome our problems. Lift the Blockade [embargo]. Open up a little.&quot;</div>
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<li><b>Country:</b> Cuba</li>
<li><b>Name:</b> Carlos Alzugaray</li>
<li><b>Occupation:</b> Former diplomat and expert on US-Cuba relations</li>
<li><b>Age:</b> 69</li>
<li><b>I would vote for:</b> Obama</li>
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<div class="bio-right"><strong>My vote: </strong>&quot;I&#39;d vote for Obama, without a doubt. With Romney, there&#39;s no chance of any improvement [in US-Cuba relations]. He&#39;s promised to go back to George W. Bush&#39;s policies. I don&#39;t think Romney is as right-wing as Bush, and he doesn&#39;t have the same links to the Cubans in Miami that Bush did. But I think if he wins he will need the help of the extreme right, and he&#39;ll have to make concessions, especially if he wants to be re-elected.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>The election&#39;s impact:</strong> &quot;Romney would be more dangerous [for Cuba] than Obama. I think he&#39;d pursue a more bellicose foreign policy. Whereas if Obama wins he won&#39;t be thinking about re-election. So we&#39;d get to see what he really wants. I expect he&#39;d do more to improve relations with Cuba.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>My view:</strong> &quot;I have a mixed opinion. I have a good opinion of the US as a people, and American industry and the arts. But on the other hand I see the US as even more prone to trying to impose its political system on other countries. And that doesn&#39;t work. The world is more complicated than that. Clearly there is more &#39;imperial hubris&#39; in the Republican Party.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Top priority:</strong>&nbsp;&quot;The US is in the middle of a difficult situation. It has problems that the system can&#39;t seem to fix because it&#39;s so difficult to get a political compromise on anything. He needs to balance the budget, cut debt, makes ends meet. But those require trade-offs.&quot;</div>
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<li><strong>Country:</strong> Cuba</li>
<li><strong>Name:</strong> Ines Quesada</li>
<li><strong>Occupation:</strong> Member of &quot;Ladies in White&quot; dissident group</li>
<li><strong>Age:</strong> 49</li>
<li><strong>I would vote for:</strong> Romney</li>
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<div class="bio-right"><strong>My vote:</strong> &ldquo;Romney. Obama hasn&rsquo;t helped us. I think Obama is a communist.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>The election&#39;s impact:</strong> &ldquo;Maybe Romney can free us from this communism.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>My opinion:</strong> &ldquo;Obama hasn&rsquo;t helped us. That would change in a second term.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Top priority:</strong> &ldquo;Bring freedom to the Cuban people.&rdquo;</div>
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<li><strong>Country:</strong> Cuba</li>
<li><strong>Name:</strong> Anita Tellez</li>
<li><strong>Occupation:</strong> Accountant</li>
<li><strong>Age:</strong> 25</li>
<li><strong>I would vote for:</strong> Obama</li>
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<div class="bio-right"><strong>My vote:</strong> Obama.</p>
<p><strong>The election&#39;s impact: </strong>&quot;If [Obama] wins, maybe he&#39;ll lift the Blockade [Embargo].&quot;</p>
<p><strong>My view:</strong> &quot;It&#39;s about the same.&quot;</p>
<p><strong>Top priority:</strong> &quot;I want him to do more to help immigrants, and give people better access to education. My aunt had a degree in physics [from a Cuban university] and over there her degree is worthless. She&#39;s working in a restaurant.&quot;</div>
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<p><strong>GlobalPost series: See what the world thinks about <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/series/2012-us-presidential-election-if-the-world-could-vote">election 2012</a></strong></p>
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<h3>Click for more voices from around the world</h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/afghanistan/120925/us-election-what-if-afghanistan-could-vote">Afghanistan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/brazil/120925/us-election-what-if-brazil-could-vote">Brazil</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/cuba/120925/us-election-what-if-cuba-could-vote
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/120925/us-election-what-if-egypt-could-vote">Egypt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/germany/120925/us-election-what-if-germany-could-vote">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/120925/us-election-what-if-hong-kong-could-vote">Hong Kong</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/120925/us-election-what-if-india-could-vote
">India</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/120925/us-election-what-if-israel-could-vote">Israel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/120925/us-election-what-if-japan-could-vote">Japan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/kenya/120925/us-election-what-if-kenya-could-vote">Kenya</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/120925/us-election-what-if-mexico-could-vote">Mexico</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/myanmar/120925/us-election-what-if-myanmar-could-vote">Myanmar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/nigeria/120925/us-election-what-if-nigeria-could-vote">Nigeria</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/120925/us-election-what-if-pakistan-could-vote">Pakistan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/120925/us-election-what-if-palestinians-could
">Palestinian Territories</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/russia/120925/us-election-what-if-russia-could-vote
">Russia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/south-africa/120925/us-election-what-if-south-africa-could-vote">South Africa</a></li>
<li><a href="
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/thailand/120925/us-election-what-if-thailand-could-vote">Thailand</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/united-kingdom/120925/us-election-what-if-uk-could-vote">UK</a></li>
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