ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on analyzing those studies that served as the basis for propaganda work, in other words, those studies that formulated the fundamental guidelines of action against the Cuban Revolution, particularly in the economic and social fields. In the twenty-five years since the triumph of the Cuban revolution, the United States has not deviated once from its policy of undermining Cuba in all areas and by all means at its disposal. Before 1959, investigations of Cuba possessed an exceptional character as part of the more general context of US studies of Latin America. The National Cuban-American Foundation played a role of singular importance in the studies tracing the guidelines of neoconservative Cubanology in the 1980s. Cubanology's political approach has always been determined by a goal that has remained essentially unchanged throughout the years: to prove the inviability of socialism as a political system for Cuba and to portray this system as totalitarian or, at least, undemocratic.
