Title : Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare': Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)
Working Paper No : 64 (series 1)
Author(s) : Jonathan Curry-Machado
Date : June 2005
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Abstract: This paper
explores how Cuba has remained politically stable despite
economic crisis. Prior to the crisis, the regime had accumulated
considerable political capital reserves, and had developed
institutional mechanisms capable of monitoring and controlling
discontent. However, the 1990s saw an increasing distancing
between state and society, and growing disillusion. Yet the
Cuban state has succeeded in maintaining the political
opposition marginalized from society, and has responded by
seeking ways of re-securing popular support.