ABSTRACT

The process of socialist reinforcement initiated in Cuba in 1986 has taken the form of an indigenous political critique of measures adopted immediately following the revolution that proved damaging to the effective development of socialism. In the process the foundations of Cuban socialism were erected and new bonds of solidarity formed between the people, their communities, and the nation. The process of rectification of mistakes and negative tendencies in Cuba’s revolutionary process has coincided with the adverse economic situation and the profound crisis of so-called real socialism. The youth of Cuba receive a cultural and technical preparation far superior to that of the adult population. The aggressiveness and intolerance of the United States toward Cuba and throughout the region, attributable to the emergence of a unipolar world order as a consequence of a weakening of the Soviet Union’s role as a counterbalance, are not provoking demoralization in Cuba.