A la memoria de Juan Linz, por alumbrar nuestras búsquedas. Hoy, tanto dentro de Cuba como en la opinión pública global, existe gran interés por el decurso de las reformas impulsadas bajo el gobierno de Raúl Castro. En los últimos años, dentro de la isla cobra fuerza, en los procesos abiertos al calor de las […]

Gurus and pundits discussing developments in Venezuela and Cuba since last year have been strongly inclined to establish a new “domino theory,” suggesting that a political defeat of chavismo (followers of the deceased President Hugo Chávez) or a major crisis of some sort in Venezuela would cause an immediate collapse of the Cuban economy and […]

In January1959, a process began in Cuba wherein the country’s government established a Communist economic system1 that drastically changed the life of its people. The objective of a Communist economic regime, according to Karl Marx,2 is to do away with private property on the basis that it represents its society. All the civil organizations of […]

One of the intriguing aspects of on-going transformations in Cuba is that absolutely nothing is said about their intended objective. Observers are mostly left to speculate about the direction in which the country is heading — apart from some general language with very little informative value of “updating socialism.” There is a long list of […]