Ciento veinticinco años de lucha : el nacionalismo cubano y la democracia política hacia el siglo XXI

Marifeli Pérez-Stable

doi:10.5354/0719-3769.1994.15376

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Marifeli Pérez-Stable

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In the world that has followed the Cold War, the United States has conditioned the normalization of relations to the establishment of political democracy on the Island. Because nationalism was the driving force of the Cuban Revolution and still constitutes the last bastion of legitimacy of the government, the current leadership is reluctant to implement reforms that appear to be concessions to the United States. Cuban leaders have almost always emphasized the supremacy of political factors in addressing what often appeared to be ungovernable realities. It is therefore rather ironic that they insist so stubbornly on the primacy of the economy to diagnose the current crisis. It does not matter, since the crisis is also political and only a response that advances towards the establishment of a political democracy will stimulate a peaceful transformation of the current situation.

Keywords:

Cuba, Crisis, Nationalism, Political Democracy, United States

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Marifeli Pérez-Stable

Profesora de sociología en State University of New York, College of Old Westbury. Ha publicado artículos sobre Cuba en diversas revistas. Entre sus más recientes trabajos destaca The Cuban revolution: origins, course and legacy, (London: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Ciento veinticinco años de lucha : el nacionalismo cubano y la democracia política hacia el siglo XXI

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