Session of the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. Prensa Latina 14 people were elected to form the new Political Bureau, the highest body charting the island’s course and making most of important political decisions affecting Cubans. By simple mathematics, each member of the Political Bureau, thus, endows himself with the right to speak, act and decide for 809,044 citizens. When one recalls that this party entity is the top leadership body in the PCC, the ultimate ideological and political authority of the Party and the Cuban State, and that it has both legislative initiative and the power to propose government positions, he understands that