ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the historical development of the Cuban Revolution and describes various moments of critical reflection on it and assessment of what remains to be done. The situation in Cuba has also produced a profound rethinking of the revolutionary experience in all sectors of society. On this there have been contradictory positions, ranging from that which regards the system of self-financing adopted in 1975 as contrary to the strategic interests of socialism to that which considers the system fundamentally correct but its implementation incomplete, inconsistent, and incoherent. In 1988 Hungary was to have sent Cuba an important cargo of transmissions and engines for the construction of buses that would provide urban transportation in the major cities of the country. These shipments were delayed and when they arrived were incomplete because Hungarian enterprises found the world market a much more profitable place to sell products than Cuba.
