ABSTRACT
The three objectives of the pro-Castro Cuba Lobby are to be accompanied by a new strategic turn predicated on identifying the enemy as Miami rather than Havana. But seen in this way, taking seriously the magnitude and the force of the opposition, will at least permit the Cuban American community and its allies in American political affairs to fashion responses to Castro's dictatorship that move beyond a series of transition scenarios of a post-Castro Cuba. We must be careful not to become victims of our own transition expectations. The Cuban armed forces occupy a privileged position in society now, controlling some 60 to 65 percent of the economy and in any transition, whether it is slow or fast, they will a significant role. Those are indeed questions that require attention, and that challenge the brave new world of post-Castro Cuba. Admittedly different, more positive, forces are at work in relation to a post-Castro Cuba than a post-Stalin Russia.
