ABSTRACT
Censorship in Fidel Castro’s Cuba has always been comparable in its goals and methods to censorship in other Communist countries. However, at a time when the government of the former Soviet Union was relaxing its restrictions on freedom of expression, the government of Cuba was cracking down harder than ever. When Castro delivered his famous speech, he described the rationale for prohibiting everything “against the Revolution” as being that the revolution has “the right to exist” and that this right must take precedence over rights claimed by individuals. The survival of the revolution has priority over freedom of expression. One of the most powerful weapons in Castro’s arsenal is the law against “enemy propaganda.” This law prescribes up to fifteen years in prison for anyone who “incites against the social order, international solidarity or the socialist State, through oral or written propaganda or any other means.”
