Working Paper No.64
Surviving the 'Waking Nightmare':
Securing Stability in the Face of Crisis in Cuba (1989-2004)
Jonathan Curry-Machado
Crisis States Research Centre, LSE
June 2005
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.
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