ABSTRACT
In 1988 Ernesto B. Betancourt was a director of Voice of America's Radio Marti, which broadcast to Cuba with the implicit aim of generating opposition to the Cuban government. The difficulty is highlighted with the case of Cuba because for the past thirty-four years, government and social institutions there have claimed legitimacy precisely for making some essential breaks with the past. On July 26, 1953, when Castro and his fellow insurgents led a daring attack on the Moneada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, they initiated an armed struggle that had roots in almost 100 years of a national campaign for independence. The director of the World Health Organization in November 1988 stated that Cuba's target date of 1995 will make Cuba the first nation in the world with comprehensive family practice coverage of 100 percent of its population—"a revolution within the revolution.".
