Cuba After Castro Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments

by Gonzalez, Edward; McCarthy, Kevin F.

• ISBN13: 9780833035356
• ISBN10: 0833035355
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-13
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

Examines the sociopolitical legacy and economic challenges that will face a post-Castro goverment and the Cuban people themselves in the era after Castro.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
The Rand Corporation Quality Assurance Process	p. v
Executive Summary	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
Political Legacies, Social Challenges	p. 3
Castro's Political Legacies: Caudilloism and Totalitarianism	p. 5
Cuba's Disaffected Youth	p. 33
Cuba's Racial Divide	p. 47
The Structural Challenges Ahead	p. 67
Cuba's Changing Demographic Structure	p. 71
The Institutional Legacy of a Centralized Economy	p. 83
The Need for Industrial Restructuring	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 105
Bibliography	p. 121
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.