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Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba's Transition
Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba's Transition
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Marifeli Perez-Stable
University of Norte Dame Press (2007)

In Looking Forward, Marifeli Perez-Stable and her colleagues imagine Cuba's future after the "poof moment"--Jorge I. Dominguez's vivid phrase--when the current regime will no longer exist. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to all interested readers, this volume does not try to predict how and when the Castro regime will end, but instead considers the possible consequences of change. Each chapter--prepared by an expert in the field--takes up a basic issue: politics, the military, the legal system, civil society, gender, race, economic transition strategies, social policy and social welfare, corruption, the diaspora, memory, ideology and culture, and U.S.-Cuba relations. The author of each chapter considers three questions: How have other new democracies handled the basic issue in question? How might Cuba's unique conditions affect this area in transition? What are the likely outcomes and alternatives for a Cuba in transition? Designed with students, policy-makers, and journalists in mind, this lively and accessible volume is an essential resource.
After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution
After Fidel, Updated Edition: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's Revolution
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Brian Latell
Palgrave Macmillan (2007)

This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, revealing how they have collaborated in policy making, divided responsibilities, and resolved disagreements for more than forty years--a challenge to the notion that Fidel always acts alone. Latell has had more access to the brothers than anyone else in this country, and his briefs to the CIA informed much of U.S. policy. Based on his knowledge of Raul Castro, Latell makes projections on what kind of leader Raul would be and how the shift in power might influence U.S.-Cuban relations.
Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism
Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism
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Max Azicri
University Press of Florida (2001)

The Cuban Revolution has aroused passion and controversy for 40 years. Cuba Today and Tomorrow explains its extraordinary survival, as well as how and why it seems likely to continue into the new century. Covering the turbulent period of the 1990s, the book examines such issues as the impact on Cuba of the Soviet Union's collapse, the country’s social malaise under economic scarcity, the reorganization of its economy, changes in its political system, problems in its relations with the United States, and the renaissance of Cuban religious life in the aftermath of the pope's visit. In this polarized context, Max Azicri offers an objectively researched study that addresses many of the assumptions made by partisan participants. Demonstrating how Cuba's ongoing reform process has allowed it to avoid the fate of other Soviet bloc regimes, he maintains that Havana has continually reinvented the nature of Cuban socialism. Drawing on original sources and scholarly studies from Cuba, the United States, and elsewhere, he argues that a more restrained and limited socialism is suitable to today's Cuba and explains why such a system probably will prevail beyond Castro. Unlikely to gratify those with strong views on either side of the political divide, Azicri’s study provides an intelligent, scholarly response to the current questions posed by the Cuban Revolution.

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May 2012
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5/16/12 Cuba's classic cars could be victims of economic reform
BBC
April 2012
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4/9/12 Santiago bustles with the work of Cuba’s new self-employed
Miami Whitfield, The Miami Herald
4/5/12 Issue #9: Cuban agriculture and the current economic transformation process
Dr. Armando Nova, From the Island
4/5/12 Cuba to reform two ministries, expand employee co-ops
Reuters, The Chicago Tribune
March 2012
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3/28/12 Cuban businessmen see freedom on the horizon
Byron Pitts, CBS News
3/24/12 Revolution in retreat
Michael Reid, The Economist
February 2012
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2/16/12 Cuba Unleashes the Pent-Up Energy of Real Estate Dreams
Victoria Burnett, The New York Times
2/6/12 Key political risks to watch in Cuba
Jeff Franks, Reuters
January 2012
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1/30/12 Cuban communists OK term limits for party and government officials
Juan Tamayo, El Nuevo Herald
1/30/12 Lessons for Cuban business
John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times

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