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A relatively small island just southeast of Florida, Cuba ranks only in the third tier of Latin American nations in populations, with 10 million compared to fourteen times that figure for Brazil. But its importance to today's world is certainly far more than its size, population, and limited resources would indicate. Until a generation ago a near protectorate of at a low cost, Cuba has come to represent both the road to and the costs of braking such dependency. US. domination is by now history, but the dilemma of marginal viability has been resolved not by economic bloc. In return for massive economic subsidization by the USSR, Cuba has assumed a role as the foothold of the Communist world in the western hemisphere- sort of a West Berlin in reverse on a much greater scale. As such, its future remains insecure, partially mortgaged to the uncertain tides of the East-West confrontation. In this context Cuba presents an almost impossible challenge to the scholar who would describe what exists there, explain how this has come about, and analyze why Cuba has turned out to be only the Mexico's 1910 upheaval and subsequent civil war). Indeed, the subject of contemporary Cuba arouses passions in authors and readers alike. Reasoned middle-of-the-road interpretations are not only rate, but usually attached by both sympathizers and critics of the present regime. Yet a balanced approach, difficult as it is to achieve, is the only valid one. Nearly three decades of the Castro regime have undoubtedly left Cuba permanently changed in many important ways, but in the process a number of the 1959 revolutions goals have gone unfulfilled or have been pushed aside to make way for new imperatives.
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Juan M. del Aguila is professor of political science at Emory University.
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- PublisherWestview Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0813305179
- ISBN 13 9780813305172
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages228
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