This is an important paper. Drawing on data obtained through focus group research undertaken inside Cuba, the authors attempt to shed light on the present status or “state of health,” so to speak, of both the Castro regime and its civic opposition. They consider what can be done, from within and without, peacefully to bring […]
A Constitutional Framework for a Free Cuba
Notes1 This essay proposes a framework of a mixed constitution for a free Cuba. By “free” I mean a republican, i.e., representative regime where the government is the product of competitive elections and the population enjoys judicially safeguarded political and civil rights.2 By “mixed” I mean one that, in keeping with Aristotle’s advice, incorporates several […]
Fidel Castro: A Machiavellian Prince?
This essay explores the parallels and divergences between Fidel Castro and Machiavelli’s self-made ruler. Much of The Prince deals with the problem of how a man can raise himself from private fortune or even obscure and abject origins to a position of undisputed political primacy as conqueror or founder of a new state or regime. […]
Comments by Alfred G. Cuzán on “Cuba and Latin America: The Political Dimension,” by Font
Professor Font’s paper offers an analysis of both the expected and, what is not the same thing, the hopedfor impacts of Latin America’s democratization and economic liberalization and integration on the Castro regime as the latter, having survived the Soviet collapse, seeks economic and political re-insertion into the region. Over the last two decades, Latin […]