The era of Soviet global power may be long dead but in one tropical corner of India, ubiquitous red flags and Che Guevara images show it is very much alive.
Hailed by some economists as a development miracle for its low poverty and high literacy rates, the state of Kerala will decide this week whether the Communist Party of India will remain in power after a decade as one of the few freely elected communist governments in the world and the last one in India.
Critics argue that the Communists, who first came to power in 1957 and have governed the state on and off since then, have failed to lay a solid economic foundation that creates good jobs, relying instead on remittances from residents forced to go abroad to find well-paid work.
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